Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Christian Nevell Bovee
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
Imitation belittles.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Only by the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
Desiderius Erasmus
Create your future from your future not your past.
Werner Erhard
Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
Erik H. Erickson
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
John Erskine
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
Sam Ervin
I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher
My work is a game -- a very serious game.
Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides
When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
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