Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. (Jimmy Durante)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Oscar Wildeupon arriving at U.S. customs 1882)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. (John D. Rockefeller)

If a man does his best, what else is there? (General George S. Patton)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. (Pablo Picasso)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. (J. Paul Getty)

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. (Bertrand Russell)

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930))

Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote – Man of La Mancha)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)