Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Oscar Wilde

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

Leo Tolstoy

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

Catherine Deneuve

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

You live as long as you are remembered.

AV

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

Source Unknown

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Julius Caesar

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Miriam Beard