I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope. (Sextus Julius Frontinus)
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. (Cicero)
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. (Baltasar Gracian)
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. (Louis K. Anspacher)
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do. (Albert Einstein)
A good friend is my nearest relation. (Thomas Fuller)
Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. (John Quincy Adams)
We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases. (Johann von Goethe)
If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. (Woody Allen)
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken. (Orson Scott Card)
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. (Vartan Gregorian)
Things do not change we change. (Henry David Thoreau)
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. (Henry David Thoreau)
We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been. (Virginia Hanson)
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. (Vince Lombardi)
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships. (Ibycus)
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it. (Jim Beggs)
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. (Charles Dickens)
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. (Jules Renard)
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)