The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Thomas Jefferson

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

Percy Wynham Lewis

I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles.

Joseph Newcomer

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Casey Kasem

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope

Life is about timing.

Carl Lewis

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Charles Caleb Colton

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Steven Wright

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Jane Austen

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Epicurus