Quotes by American/USA authors (page 3)

"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it"

Mark Twain, Author

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The best mirror is an old friend"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"I feel happy to terrify kids"

R. L. Stine, Writer

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

Mark Twain, Author

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"

Woody Allen, Director

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

Helen Gahagan, Actress

"It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding"

Louis Gerstner, Businessman

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first"

Ronald Reagan, President

"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real"

Thomas Merton, Author

"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth"

Richard Baker, Politician

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman