Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. (Mencius)
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. (Francis Hutcheson)
Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me. (Jerry Maguire)
The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. (Omar Khayym)
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity. (Gene Roddenberry)
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil. (Baltasar Gracian)
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. (Noam Chomsky)
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. (Joyce)
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. (Jacques Deval)
It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State. (Roger B. Taney)
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported. (Epictetus)
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The big thieves hang the little ones. (Czech Proverb)
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind. (Walter Bagehot)
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby. (Nigerian Proverb)
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. (Confucius)
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. (Conan Doyle)
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good. (Ernest Holmen)