Andy Worhol, fame

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987)

Finley Peter Dunne, trust

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Finley Peter Dunne (1867 – 1836 )

Abraham Lincoln, conviction

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

Peter Pan, Goodbye

Never say good-bye because good-bye means going away, and going away means forgetting.

Peter Pan Created by J. M. Barrie (1860–1937)

Anatole France – change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France (1844 – 1924)

Guy Lombardo on Life

Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.

Guy Lombardo (1902 – 1977)

Mark Twain on New Year’s

New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 1910)

Benjamin Disraeli on quotations

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)

Charles Bukowski going crazy

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994)

Isaac Asimov on Knowledge and Wisdom

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)