Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Robert Burchfield

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

Voltaire

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

Johnny Vegas

The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.

Felix Alba-Juez

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Francesca da Rimini

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Instead of starry-eyed worship of grand illusions, the mature citizen admires and idealizes proven values. He reveres, among other things, certain time-honored virtues and the people who practice them, especially the personal ideals of honesty, integrity, self-reliance, courage, persistence and dependability; the political ideals of individual liberty, the rights of property and contract, and the rule of law; and the ethical ideals of mutuality, decency and charity, among others.

Lyle H. Jr. Rossiter

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Henry David Thoreau

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Eric Hoffer