Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

Friedrich Hölderlin

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Aphra Behn

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Hunter S. Thompson

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles W. Pickering

People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman; but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

Art Buchwald, Have I Ever Lied t

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

Mahatma Gandhi

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

James Thurber