All the world's a cage. (Jeanne Phillips)
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. (William Shakespeare)
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. (Hans Margolius)
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. (Stephen Leacock)
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men (Natalie Clifford Barney)
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. (John MacNaughton)
The object of the superior man is truth. (Confucius)
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. (Aristotle)
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. (Plato)
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. (Richard Milhous Nixon)
Confessed faults are half mended. (Scottish Proverb)
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. (H Hahn Blavatsky)
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. (Robert Byrne)
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. (Publilius Syrus)
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius)
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. (Groucho Marx)
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours. (Swedish Proverb)
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. (Thucydides)
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name. (Paula Poundstone)
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. (Wystan Hugh Auden)