May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. (Anonymous)
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle (Henry David Thoreau)
To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain. (Sophocles)
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. (John Patrick)
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. (Carl Sagan)
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. (La Rochefoucauld)
To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. (Woody Allen)
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. (U. S. Constitution)
The secret is to always let the other man have your way. (Claiborne Pell)
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. (Frantz Fanon)
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. (Mario M Cuomo)
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. (George Bernard Shaw)
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. (Dr. Jonas Salk)
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. (James Grover Thurber)
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this. (Gustave Flaubert)
For visions come not to polluted eyes. (Mary Howitt)
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's only for wallowing in. (Katherine Mansfield)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)