Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Will Rogers)
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. (Richard Adams)
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. (Ogden Nash)
Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. (Angela Mont)
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. (George Orwell)
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. (Alanis Morissette)
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. (Arnold Bennett)
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. (George F. Gilder)
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. (Athenus)
Fools admire, but men of sense approve. (Alexander Pope)
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. (Henry Ford)
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. (George Bernard Shaw)
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. (Kierkegaard)
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Norm Crosby)
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle)
I have found power in the mysteries of thought. (Euripides)
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. (Albert Einstein)
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings (William C. Bagley)
The grave is the general meeting place. (Thomas Fuller)