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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright
US architect (1869 - 1959)

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Rose Macauley

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West
US movie actress (1892 - 1980)

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott
US juvenile novelist (1832 - 1888)

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell
English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder.

Bible, James 2:19 (New International Version)

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin
US comedian & movie actor (1945 - )

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"
French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)

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