Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Walter Bagehot

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

Emerson Fittipaldi

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

Jef Mallett

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming o'er the joys of night. Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep.

William Blake

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Oscar Wilde

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Horatio Nelson

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

John Gay

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Adam Brody

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow.

Emily Miller

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Ovid

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Aristotle