Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Felix Frankfurter)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. (Aristotle)
Ted What about Brett Fav... ruh (There's Something About Mary)
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. (Stephen Covey)
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it. (Jeseph Joubert)
It is well to be born either a king or a fool. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. (Max Lerner)
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. (Evelyn Waugh)
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. (Richard Adams)
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. (John Christian Bovee)
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. (Edward Irving Koch)
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. (John le Carre)
Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing. (Albert P. Ryder)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. (George Washington)
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. (Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. (Eckhart Tolle)
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' (William Ralph Inge)
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong. (Albert Einstein)