Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack."

Winston Churchill

Ratio of Americans who die from tobacco-related illnesses each year to the number who are murdered : 17:1

September issue of Harper's Index

"War is progress, peace is stagnation."

Hegel

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.

Edgar A. Shoaff

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Ayn Rand

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill

Conserve energy -- make love more slowly.

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Giacomo Leopardi

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Einstein

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goethe

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon (the original)

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.