Image by St. Murse via FlickrRashness succeeds often, still more often fails. – Napoleon Bonaparte




If you leap into a well, providence is not bound to fetch you out. – Thomas Fuller



To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.



The strength of Monaco is the weakness of the world. – H.A. Gibbons



Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. – Walter Matthau



God does not play dice. – Albert Einstein

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The Poor Could Make a Wonderful Living - If the Rich Could Hire People to Die for Them

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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish proverb

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. – Sophocles

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. – Theodore Roosevelt

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. – Gian Carlo Menotti

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. – Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. – Norman Cousins

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James

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The Weak Man's Imitation of Strength

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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen on occasion to change. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. – Eric Hoffer

If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He’s a little man with much to be modest about. – Winston Churchill

Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humor. – Steve Allen

They say a reasonable number of fleas is good fer a dog – keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog. – E.N. Westcott

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. – Pope John XXIII