Miscellaneous

Because if it didn’t work out, I didn’t want to blow the whole day.
- Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packers running back, when asked why his wedding was held in the morning

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso

It is fun being in the same decade with you.
- Franklin Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
- Nido Qubein

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

...it would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
- Voltaire

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard