There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Eric Hoffer

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

Plato

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

Norman Borlaug

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

George Mason

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Wendell Phillips

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Oscar Wilde

A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Samuel Johnson

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

Nina Fedoroff

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Sir Walter Scott