All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them (Antoine De Saint-Exupery)
It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction (Abraham Lincoln)
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. (Hoshang N. Akhtar)
The way to become boring is to say everything. (Voltaire)
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
When a thing is new, people say 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say 'Anyway, it is not new.' (William James)
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. (Blaise Pascal)
Nature is wont to hide herself. (Heraclitus)
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. (Groucho Marx)
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. (Abraham Lincoln)
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it. (Immanuel Hermann Fichte)
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. (Harrison Ford)
Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. (William Hazlitt)
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. (John Lilly)
They think to little who talk to much. (John Dryden)
Oh for a book and a shady nook... (John Wilson)
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. (James 210 Bible)
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. (Barbara Hall)
He who loses faith, loses all. (Unknown)
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. (Mark Twain)