El problema es que los humanos tienen el don de elegir precisamente las cosas que son peores para ellos.

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is the law, the last prerogative.

John Dryden, The Hind and the Pa

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Wole Soyinka

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

William Cowper

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm De Chazal

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

H. L. Mencken

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Yiddish Proverb

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. 
 Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Lady Constance Lytton

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

Taylor Caldwell, Honoria, 1957

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

C.S. Lewis