The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Olive Schreiner

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Tacitus

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.

Ernest Hemingway

The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action

Andre Gide

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Paul Bourget

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Richard Russo

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

DeForest Kelley

People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.

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