If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Voltaire

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean de La Fontaine

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Helen Rowland

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning -- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Lorraine Hansberry, from the pla

We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Mark Twain

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

Gil Kane

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Elmer Davis

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau