The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. (Baltasar Gracian)
'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. (Aeschylus)
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. (Erma Bombeck)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. (Oscar Wilde)
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. (Unknown)
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty. (Lao Tzu)
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. (Charlotte Bronte)
Sometimes I think we'd be better off blind. (Lily Yeamans)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. (Henry Louis Mencken)
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. (Jules Renard)
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. (Leo Tolstoy)
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. (Stephen Stills)
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. (Walt Whitman)
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. (Marcus Aelius Aurelius)
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. (Rich Kulawiec)
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. (Richard Adams)
If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts. (Margaret Hilda Thatcher)
To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. (Buddha)