Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

H. V. Wade

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Anon.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Cullen Hightower

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Oscar Wilde

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Maria Mitchell

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

? ausm?gi daudz taisn?bu. Nojukt var, ja nav sav?j?s.

Imants Ziedonis

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Camille Paglia

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

Toba Beta

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Adolf Loos

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Karl Liebknecht