Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. (Edgar Lee Masters)
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war. (Robert E. Lee)
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. (Unknown)
You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. (George W. Bush)
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. (Horace)
The first and great commandment is Don't let them scare you. (Elmer Davis)
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas (Jean Kerr)
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. (La Rochefoucauld)
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. (Chief Joseph)
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head. (Niels Henrik David Bohr)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. (Samuel McChord Crothers)
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. (Francis Bacon)
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven. (Mark Twain)
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again (Rudyard Kipling)
A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready. (Lawrence Downs)
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so (Unknown)
The historian is a prophet in reverse. (Friedrich von Schlegel)
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. (Michael J. Gelb)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. (Rich Cook)
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. (Juvenal)