He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arthur Rimbaud

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;Four nights will quickly dream away the time.

William Shakespeare

If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.

Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise o

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Margaret Thatcher

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Dane Cook

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

Wayne Kramer

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

C.S. Lewis

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

Peter Singer

Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage are directly inspired by sex-passions.

Arthur Desmond