Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ~Mark Twain
There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Kahlil Gibran
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ~John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud
I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet. ~Joanne Sherman
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. ~Terri Guillemets
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1900
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~Rita Mae Brown
Any man can hold a girl's hand, but only the elite can hold her feet. ~Author Unknown
Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas. ~Alfonso de Cartagena
No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one. ~George F. Nordenhold
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ~William Butler Yeats
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
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