It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Helena Rubinstein

Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.

W.G. Sebald

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Mike Conner

Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryant on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.

Hunter S. Thompson, Bad Nerves i

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.

Henry Alford

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Sydney Smiles

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Bill Cosby

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Joichi Ito

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise-- Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

John Keats, On First Looking Int

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Charley Pride