Fear is the mother of morality. – Nietzsche

Health is worth more than learning. – Thomas Jefferson

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. – Sir Winston Churchill

If the business does well, the stock eventually follows. – Warren Buffett

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance. – Plato

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire

Crime does not pay… as well as politics. – Alfred E. Newman

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. – Cyril Connolly

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has got to go. – Oscar Wilde (last words)

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. – Friedrich Nietzsche

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. – Cicero

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – (Recent octogenarian) Margaret Thatcher

I do not want to name any catastrophes where you can see what happens if organized state action is absent. I could name countries, but the position I still hold forbids it, but everyone knows I mean America. – Outgoing German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, on hurricane Katrina

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect. – George Carlin

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Will Rogers

Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. – Christopher Marlowe

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of the way. – Henry David Thoreau

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. – Simon Cameron