There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. ~Hippocrates
It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. ~Andre Dawson, on Montreal
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown
The deed is everything, the glory naught. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. ~Theodore Schroeder
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry. ~Terri Guillemets
The only cure for writer's block is insomnia. ~Merit Antares
If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ~Nan Porter
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~Henry Miller
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. ~Harold Coffin
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. ~Millard Fuller
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor. ~Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ~George Orwell
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ~Jane Austen
If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams. ~Jason Love
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing. ~Duane Dewel
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