A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Francis Picabia

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Simone Weil

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

W. C. Sellar

Truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato

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Paul Klee

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Will Durant

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Curtis Stone

...the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later all of Boston were behaving strangely towards me. ...I started to see crypto-communists everywhere. ...I started to think I was a man of great religious importance, and to hear voices all the time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my head, from people opposed to my ideas. ...The delirium was like a dream from which I seemed never to awake.

John Forbes Nash

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

William Cowper