Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. (Walter Stegner)
An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea. (Leland Stowe)
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. (Scott Adams)
When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
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)
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it. (Carl Sandburg)
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. (Benjamin Disraeli)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (Joseph Chilton Pearce)
Lord, what fools these mortals be (William Shakespeare)
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. (Theodore Roosevelt)
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. (Oscar Wilde)
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. (Nozick)
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. (Colley Cibber)
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. (Alcaeus)
Lloyd What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together (Dumb & Dumber)
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. (Sir Arthur Helps)
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. (Marquis de Sade)
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system (Robert A. Heinlein)
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. (Cynthia Ozick)
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. (James Hillman)