"The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."

Proverb, Persian on Memory
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"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

Johnson, Samuel on Memory
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"People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories."

Shaw, P.K. on Imagination
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"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"

Tupper, Martin on Memory
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"Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Ballou, Hosea on Hatred
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"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal."

Buddha on Hatred
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"Don't confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them."

Jackson Browne on failure
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"Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance
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"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

Gorbachev, Mikhail on Jesus Christ
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"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow."

Dane, Frank on Ignorance
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"They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on Liberty
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"Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control."

Josefowitz, Natasha on Luck
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"Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck."

Harris, Joel Chandler on Luck
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Osler, Sir William on Ignorance
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

Jefferson, Thomas on Pleasure
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"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it."

Twain, Mark on Ignorance
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on Ignorance
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up."

Twain, Mark on Indecision
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

Jefferson, Thomas on Government
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"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

Jefferson, Thomas on Greed
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

Jefferson, Thomas on Injustice
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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual."

Jefferson, Thomas on Lies and Lying
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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

Jefferson, Thomas on Luck
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers."

Jefferson, Thomas on Newspapers
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"The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper."

Jefferson, Thomas on Newspapers
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"There is a great deal of human nature in people."

Twain, Mark on Human Nature
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"Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh."

Twain, Mark on Happiness
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on Facts
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on Faith
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"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."

Twain, Mark on Fortune
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on Friends and Friendship
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"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."

Twain, Mark on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on Gratitude
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on Habit
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"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

Kennedy, John F. on Destiny
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"Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny."

Hobbes, John Oliver on Destiny
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"If you judge, investigate."

Seneca on Judgment and Judges
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"A dog that barks much is never a good hunter."

Proverb on Work
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"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Twain, Mark on Habit
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on Fools and Foolishness
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