"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."

-Dennis Wholey

"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force." - Helmuth von Moltke

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

John Kenneth Galbraith

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson

@greysoni, That was exceptionally good. If you have anything else please fill free to share it.

"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

-Dean Acheson

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

- Henry David Thoreau

"Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand."

-Jerzy Lee Stanislaw

"The secret to politics? Make a good treaty with Russia".- Otto von Bismarck

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
Leo Tolstoy

"Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"Work is love made visible"
Khalil Gibran

"If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble."

-Moliere

"Exceptional thinkers will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein

"What I learned today-not a single person in the entire country takes advantage of the welfare system." David Harsanyi

"John Kerry Should be Nominated for Sainthood"
Jane Harman

"raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt"
Obama (bonus decisiveness points for the 100x interjection)

"Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new."

-Henry David Thoreau

“There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90 percent of what is necessary.”

Thomas Sowell

"Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind."

-William Collins

"Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline."

-Victoria Ocampo

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

Thomas Jefferson

"We can either change the complexities of life... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively."

-Herbert Benson

I don't believe I've used this one yet, but if I make any repeats fill free to let me know and I'll post a different quote. (I am picking them out of my list at random so occasional repeats are likely)

"He is lifeless that is faultless."

-English Proverb

"Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future."

-Dhyani Ywahoo

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

-Steven King

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. "

Chales Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

hmm... that's cool Draug. I think if I ever make a multi I'll call me, "Epoch_of_belief."

I'll be honest, not a fan of Charles Dickens. He's a bit too wordy for my liking (though the only book I've really read by him was Great Expectations and that was enough to turn me away). Good quote though. I'm just not that big a fan of old English styles.