A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
Written by satirist Jonathan Swift in 1710

Never let schooling interfere with your education. 
Coined by the novelist and essayist Grant Allen in 1894

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. 
Written in the 1990 book “P. S. I Love You” by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. and credited to his mother, Sarah Frances Brown

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. 
Attributed to an anonymous government researcher in 1968

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. 
Origin unknown

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. 
Anonymous

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. 
Written by French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1656

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. 
Origin is unknown

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. 
Said in some form by actor James Quin in the 1700s

Golf is a good walk spoiled. 
Likely originally said in some form by an unknown couple called “the Allens,” friends of author H. S. Scrivener, in a conversation about lawn tennis in 1903

Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is. 
Written by journalist Frank Scully in 1950

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. 
A version was credited to Berlin doctor Markus Herz in 1912

Don’t believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. 
Attributed to humorist Robert J. Burdette in 1883