A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times. (Eric Pio)
...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, Letter 87, c.63-65 (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. (Walter Savage Landor)
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death (Confucius)
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. (Samuel Johnson)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. (La Rochefoucauld)
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. (Tom Robbins)
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. (Epictetus)
What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. (Richard Harkness)
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. (Peter Cochrane)
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. (John Irving)
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies. (Chinese Proverb)
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up. (Ogden Nash)
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. (Norman Mailer)
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping)
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. (Trey and Matt Stone Parker)
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it. (Navajo Chant)
Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher. (German proverb)
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. (Juvenal)