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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers
US advice columnist (1918 - 2002)

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis
English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963)

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Minna Antrim

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Agatha Christie
English mystery author (1890 - 1976)

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx
US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil
French social philosopher (1909 - 1943)

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Kathleen Norris

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis
US novelist (1885 - 1951)

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
French writer (1900 - 1944)

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford
British chemist & physicist (1871 - 1937)

If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

Erwin Schrodinger

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Sheila Graham

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD)

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles Manson

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
US general & Republican politician (1890 - 1969)

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