The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

Kathryn Bigelow

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

John Maynard Keynes

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

Alfred Russel Wallace

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'

E. M. Kelly, Growing Disciples,

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

George Bernard Shaw

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

Voltaire

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Dr. Seuss

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Benjamin Disraeli