Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. (Evan Esar)
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. (Plato)
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. (Dorothy Day)
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. (Latin Proverb)
Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed. (Phaedrus)
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. (Euripides)
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. (Henry Kissinger)
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place. (Horace)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Kurt Herbert Alder)
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. (Rensis Likert)
A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love. (Helen Thomson)
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. (Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn)
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements. (I Ching)
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. (Tacitus)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. (Yogi Berra)
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. (Oscar Wilde)
I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. (Aaron Machado)