It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

- John Burroughs

of course, it's impossible, it is a humorous quote.

Many bring  their talent to their grave, if you use half of your talent, that's already too good to be true, if 10%, that's good enough, life has infinite possibilities.

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

- Lee Iacocca

I'm a born-again atheist.

- Gore Vidal

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

- Edward Gibbon

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

- Bill Vaughan

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

- Victor Hugo

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong -- or absolutely right.

- Albert Guinon

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

- EB White

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

- George F. Will

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

- Evan Esar

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

- William Gibson

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

- John Ruskin

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

- Aldous Huxley

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

- Ralph W. Sockman

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

- Donald Foster

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

- Bill Vaughan

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

- Robert Heinlein

Why?

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

- Alice Thomas Ellis

I've heard of above phrase before, here is my version:

Life is never finished, it is only abandoned.

How about:

Life is never abandoned, it is only finished.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

- Rene Descartes

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

- Sir Arthur Eddington

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

- Evan Esar

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Sir Richard Steele

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-Mark Twain

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

- Albert Einstein

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

- Niels Bohr

A poem is no place for an idea.

- Edgar Watson Howe

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

- Emo Phillips

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

- Jascha Heifetz

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

- James Buchanan (1791-1868) 15th US President

I didn't really say everything I said.

- Yogi Berra

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

-- Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) American lyricist and librettist

No matter how many eggs a fly lays, no silkworms will come out of them.

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

- Author unknown

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

- Albert Einstein

God Created Men and Sam Colt Made Them Equal.