Nunc scio quit sit amor. (Virgil)
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. (Woodrow Wilson)
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. (Russell Baker)
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (Joseph Baretti)
Look back, and smile on perils past. (Sir Walter Scott)
The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth. (Marvin D. Levy)
Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise. (Welsh Proverb)
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. (Albert Camus)
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. (Leo Tolstoy)
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money. (John Updike)
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. (W. S. Gilbert)
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. (William James)
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. (Matthew Prior)
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. (Elbert Hubbard)
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. (David Viscott)
Nineties style isn't. (David Borenstein)
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. (Richard Milhous Nixon)