The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. (Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.' (Thomas Arnold)
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. (Phillip Lopate)
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. (Tom Nolan)
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' (Igor Stravinsky)
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. (Isadora Duncan)
This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. (Al Capone)
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. (Dorothy Parker)
'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. (Walter Dwight)
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. (Doug Larson)
I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing. (Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich)
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. (John Ruskin)
This secret spoke Life herself unto me 'Behold,' said she, 'I am that which must ever surpass itself.' (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (Mark Twain)
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. (Hyman Rickover)
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free. (William Bolitho)
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. (Trey and Matt Stone Parker)
We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. (Ted W. Engstrom)