Inflation is taxation without legislation.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

Thomas Kempis

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

Roseanne Barr

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

Charles Eliot Norton

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

JeanLuc Godard

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Proverb

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Peter Agre

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

Robert Frost

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

Ralph Venning

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Alfred A. Montapert