Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. (Marvin Minksy)
What is left when honor is lost (Publilius Syrus)
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. (Denis Diderot)
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. (Pliny the Elder)
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. (Albert Einstein)
I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale. (Richard Milhous Nixon)
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation. (George Bernard Shaw)
When you talk, you repeat what you already know when you listen, you often learn something. (Jared Sparks)
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation. (Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.)
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. (Euripides)
There's never a new fashion but it's old. (Chaucer)
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together (Clyde Kluckhohn)
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. (Elbert Hubbard)
From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. (Hilaire Belloc)
We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. (Basil S. Walsh)
This book fills a much-needed gap. (Moses Hadas)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Mark Twain)
O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen. (Saint Augustine)