The Last Word

By Jared W. Zelski | Friday, October 13, 2006

Life is just one damned thing after another.
—Elbert Hubbard

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
—Edmund Burke

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
—Abraham Lincoln

All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
—Bible, Ecclesiastes i. 14.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
—E. Housman

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
—H. L. Mencken

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
—Dylan Thomas

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
—EE Cummings

Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you’ll be right.
—H.H. “Breaker” Morant

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
—Henry Ford

The secret of being boring is to say everything.
—Voltaire

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
—Theodore Roosevelt

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
—Robert Frost

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
—Eric Hoffer

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
—Albert Einstein

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
—Albert Camus

Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.
—Corey Ford

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
—Albert Einstein

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
—Herman Melville

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
—William Shakespeare

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
—George Burns

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
—Samuel Johnson

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