One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love. (Sophocles)
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. (Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck)
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. (Hannah Arendt)
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.) (Horace)
Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it. (E. R. Hazlip)
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. (Publilius Syrus)
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America (Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville)
Children need models more than they need critics. (Jeseph Joubert)
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. (Tony Bennet)
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment. (Pearl Bailey)
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. (Ralph W. Sockman)
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. (Kathleen Norris)
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. (Robert Green Ingersoll)
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. (Wystan Hugh Auden)
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything. (Arab Proverb)
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. (Casey Stengel)
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions. (Walter Lippmann)
If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes. (Harrison Ford)