"I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones."
– John Cage
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness
consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
– Albert Camus
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
– Orson Rega Card
"If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one."
– Robert Cavett
"The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
– Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort
"One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, — to
scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap
cairns."
– John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones
"No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness — or so
good as drink."
– G. K. Chesterton
"... the real great man is the man who makes everyone feel great."
– G. K. Chesterton
"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves."
– Lydia M. Child
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
– Sir Winston Churchill
"Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once."
– Sir Winston Churchill
"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."
– Sir Winston Churchill
"In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good
to their fellow men."
– Cicero
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
– Tom Clancy
"A habit is something you can do without thinking — which is why most
of us have so many of them."
– Frank Clark
"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it."
– Frank A. Clark
"I remind you, sir, that extreme patriotism in the defense of liberty
is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice no virtue."
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of
your own."
– Harold Coffin
"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who
had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own
hearts in their closet."
– Charles Caleb Colton
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the
public and have no self."
– Cyril Connolly
"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set
foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."
– Norman Cousins
"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
– Malcolm Cowley
"Life is a gift from God. Wasting it is like destroying your favorite
item you received from the person you love most."
– Stephen Craton
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn
down your house, you can never tell."
– Joan Crawford
"Oh ... I listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when
you're talking."
– Bing Crosby
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night
and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
– E. E. Cummings