I'm following Paddy-fan-'s example and 書く my own 10 名言・格言 to live by. These may not be my お気に入り 名言・格言 ever but they are nice ones.

1. 愛 is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - Henry Louis Mencken

2. If あなた are not criticized, あなた may not be doing much. - Donald H. Rumsfeld

3. There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," あなた know he is a crook. - Groucho Marx

4. That あなた may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people によって doing what あなた know is right, than to temporarily please them によって doing what あなた know is wrong. - William J. H. Boetcker

5. If あなた don't think your life is もっと見る important than someone elses then sign your donor card and kill yourself. - House, House M.D.

6. For me, 音楽 and life are all about style. - Miles Davis

7. It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. - P. G. Wodehouse

8. I could not become anything: neither bad nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the 苦い and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Notes From Underground'

9. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. - Mark Twain

10. I would rather have a mind opened によって wonder than one closed によって belief. - Gerry Spence