Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

John Stuart Mill

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

William Hazlitt

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Moshe Sharett

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein, On relativity

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Maria Sharapova

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Virginia Woolf

Satire is focused bitterness.

Leo Rosten

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

C. Wright Mills

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Albert Einstein

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Norman Mailer