The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

English Proverb

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

Paul Ambroise Valery

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Debra Winger

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

Isaac Leib Peretz

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Charles Horton Cooley

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.

Hamlin Garland

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Edward Young

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

William Shakespeare

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Susan Shaughnessy

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Thomas Carlyle