Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Friedrich Nietzsche

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Lord Chesterfield

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Armstrong Williams

We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.

Muhammad Ali

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

Judge not by the eye but by the heart.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

Johann Lamont

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other

Samuel Johnson

Das Lachen ist die Sonne, die aus dem menschlichen Antlitz den Winter vertreibt.

Victor Hugo