When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.

Bhagavad Gita

Where vice is vengeance follows.

Scottish Proverb

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James Fenimore Cooper

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal

Bad company ruins good morals.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:33

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffett

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

William Congreve

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.- Romeo -

William Shakespeare

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

G. K. Chesterton

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Earl Warren