Post #302

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those whose have differed.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Post #301

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
—Queen Victoria

Post #300

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead
Be always sure you're right — THEN GO AHEAD!
—Davy Crockett

Post #299

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Post #298

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Post #297

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Post #296

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
—Eleonora Duse

Post #295

Failure is success if we learn from it.
—Malcolm Forbes

Post #294

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
—Benjamin Franklin

Post #293

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
—Clarence Darrow

Post #292

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'.
—Michel de Montaigne

Post #291

God enters by a private door into every individual.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post #290

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain

Post #289

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
—George Sand

Post #288

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
—Søren Kierkegaard

Post #287

Nothing is worth more than this day.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #286

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
—Albert Einstein

Post #285

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you do hold.
—H.W. Shaw

Post #284

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
—Logan Pearsall Smith

Post #283

Property given away is the only kind that will forever be yours.
—Maritial

Post #282

Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
—Eckhart von Hochheim

Post #281

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me, these have always been contemptible.  I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein

Post #280

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it's letting go.
—Hermann Hesse

Post #279

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero

Post #278

He who laughs - lasts.
—Wilfred Peterson

Post #277

Time is the devourer of everything.
—Ovid

Post #276

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain

Post #275

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry

Post #274

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
—Benjamin Franklin

Post #273

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
—Pythagoras

Post #272

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
—Lady Bird Johnson

Post #271

Death means nothing to us; When we are, death has not come yet, and when death has come, we no longer are.
—Epicurus