Lord Acton

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

- Lord Acton, historian, politician and author

Jules Renard

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."

- Jules Renard, author

The Simpsons

"You don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way."

- Homer Simpson, 'The Simpsons,' created by Matt Groening

Brianna Gaither

"Where has it brought you and what has it taught you?
Has it made you feel more beautiful, more beautiful at all?"

- Brianna Gaither, 'Let It Go'

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., jurist

Oscar Wilde

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

R. K. Milholland

"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it."

- R. K. Milholland, webcomic author

Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost, poet

Anatole France

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Carl Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Sarah McLachlan

"It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard."

- Sarah McLachlan, 'I Will Remember You'

James Thurber

"Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist, author

Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

- Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author

Dylan Thomas

"Do not go gentle into that good night, 
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

- 'Do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas

The Beatles

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."

- The Beatles, 'Strawberry Fields Forever'

Kathryn L. Nelson

"I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself."

- 'Pemberley Manor' by Kathryn L. Nelson

Paul Theroux

"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."

- Paul Theroux, author

David Nicholls

"If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!"

- "One Day" by David Nicholls

Rudyard Kipling

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling, poet and author

Victoria Holt

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

- Victoria Holt, pen name of Eleanor Hibbert, author

Hilary Thayer Hamann

"I don't want to live forever. I'm having trouble with the idea of Tuesday."

- "Anthropology of an American Girl" by Hilary Thayer Hamann

Sufjan Stevens

"All things go."

- Sufjan Stevens, 'Chicago'

Khalil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Lily Tomlin

"We're all in this alone."

- Lily Tomlin, comedian and actor

Thomas Jefferson

"I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA