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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

 Yogi Berra, in  Success and Failure

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  War and Peace

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

 Lee Hawkins, in  Health and Disease

It gets late early out there.

 Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in  Work and Recreation

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

 Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

 R. I. Fitzhenry, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in  Life and Death

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

 Doug Horton, in  Vice and Virtue

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

 Rudyard Kipling, in  Men and Women

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

 Daisaku Ikeda, in  Success and Failure

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

 Robert G. Ingersoll, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

 Alfred Korzybski, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

 Krystal Ann Kraus, in  Men and Women

It is impossible to love and be wise.

 Francis Bacon, in  Love and Hate

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

 Burt Bacharach, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

 John Perry Barlow, in  Law and Politics

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

 Niels Bohr, in  Science and Religion

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

 Robert Byrne, in  Vice and Virtue

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

 Mahatma Gandhi, in  Law and Politics and  Work and Recreation