The most important things in life aren't things.
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.
Mark Twain
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. . . . Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Se
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
Paul Newman
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above....Every secret of a writer
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biogr
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
Proverb
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
George Eliot, In a letter to Geo
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.
Thomas Jefferson, From a letter
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
Barbara Cartland
The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer.
Joyce Cary
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie! till you can find a rock.
Wynn Catlin
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
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