There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so that if one sleeps the other watches, and honor is safe

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Woodrow Wilson

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

C.H.SPURGEON

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Audre Lorde

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?

Cole Porter

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.Memoria certe non modo Philosophiam sed omnis / vitae usum, omnesque artes, una maxime continet

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Acad., ii

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Christopher Hitchens

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Eric Hoffer

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Plato

Ugly and deformed people have great need of unusual virtues, because they are likely to be extremely uncomfortable without them. (Book V.).

George Eliot