Voltaire

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

Mark Twain

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." - Mark Twain

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rita Mae Brown

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown (American Writer)

G. K. Chesterton

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." - G. K. Chesterton

Ben Hecht

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." - Ben Hecht

P. J. O'Rourke

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke

George Orwell

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell

Scott Adams

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

Elie Wiesel

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them." - Elie Wiesel

Robert H. Schuller

"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller

Thomas Wolfe

"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken." - Thomas Wolfe (American)