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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “I'm bored with it all.

    - Last Words”
    Winston Churchill

  • #2
    Grover Cleveland
    “A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.”
    Grover Cleveland

  • #3
    Grover Cleveland
    “I have tried so hard to do right.”
    Grover Cleveland

  • #4
    John Green
    “I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    Aldous Huxley
    “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #11
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #14
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

  • #15
    E.B. White
    “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”
    E.B. White

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #17
    Emil M. Cioran
    “It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
    Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    William Shakespeare, Macbeth

  • #19
    David Foster Wallace
    “The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #20
    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    Will Rogers

  • #21
    Confucius
    “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
    Confucius

  • #22
    Confucius
    “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
    Confucius

  • #23
    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    Confucius

  • #24
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #25
    Confucius
    “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
    Confucius

  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #29
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #30
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #31
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book



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