Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. (Virginia)
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me. (George Bernard Shaw)
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. (Socrates)
It is not every question that deserves an answer. (Publilius Syrus)
Many a man thinks he has an open mind, when it's merely vacant. (Unknown)
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. (Quentin Crisp)
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. (Lydia Sigourney)
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. (Douglas Noel Adams)
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian. (Mark Twain)
My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right' (Dexter Scott King)
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. (Real Live Preacher)
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. (Fran Lebowitz)
Law is order, and good law is good order. (Aristotle)
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. (Clive Staples Lewis)
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)
Prejudice is opinion without judgement. (Voltaire)
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. (Alfred E. Newman)
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. (Cicero)