They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Walter Benjamin

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Italo Calvino said the artist reveals that bit of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Art is all about the art of lying. The artist's imperative is to create a supreme fiction, a lie that, paradoxically, discloses a truth. It's precisely this kind of paradox that Calvino and Fellini adored.

Damian Pettigrew

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart.

C. JoyBell C.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl R. Rogers

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Mark Twain

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

Thomas Jefferson

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.

Timothy Olyphant