The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage.

William Hazlitt

Be considerate with the Earth. More people have to use it when you're gone.

Steve Maraboli

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

Thomas Huxley

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

Jonathan Safran Foer

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Helen Rowland

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Aristotle

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

William Dunbar

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...

Thomas Jefferson

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Roy Hattersley

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Jerzy Kosinski

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

Buenaventura Durruti