Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Proverb

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

James H. Boren

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels

Rabino Nilton Bonder

The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Colin Farrell

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Adam Clarke

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

Margaret Mead

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson