Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
Nisami
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace Stevens
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
Christopher Hitchens
Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly antagonistic towards one another and mutually exclusive. A great deal of hatred, indeed, has no other source than a compelled respect for the superior qualities of some other person; conversely, if you were to consider hating every miserable wretch you met you would have your work cut out: it is much easier to despise them one and all. True, genuine contempt, which is the obverse of true, genuine pride, stays hidden away in secret and lets no one suspect its existence: for if you let a person you despise notice the fact, you thereby reveal a certain respect for him, inasmuch as you want him to know how low you rate him
Arthur Schopenhauer, Originally
Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a kosmos. The Greek word means an equal presence of order and beauty.
Vanna Bonta
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.
Heinrich Heine
A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable -- or at least deserving of support.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
Percy Wynham Lewis
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
William Shakespeare
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