It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

Of all the wonders that I have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.(Act II, Scene 2)

William Shakespeare

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Douglas Coupland

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Elvis Presley

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Epictetus

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

The Talmud

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable.

Morris Hite

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Schweitzer

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Harriet Martineau

There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

Farrah Fawcett