You speak metaphorically, I hope, said Peggy. I hope not, said Becca. Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

George Orwell

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Bertrand Russell

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Johann von Goethe

Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.

Alex Ebert

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles Edison

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

James Russell Lowell

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James C. Humes

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Oscar Wilde

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.

W. H. Auden

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

George S. Patton

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Les Dawson