MEN HAVE DIED FROM TIME TO TIME AND WORMS HAVE EATEN THEM, BUT NOT FOR LOVE.$William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” ART BELONGS TO THOSE WHO APPRECIATE IT. OTHERS MERELY OWN IT.$Joseph Widener, attributed HAVE GOOD LUCK, AND YOU WILL HAVE THE REST; BE FORTUNATE, AND YOU WILL BE THOUGHT GREAT.$Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” THROW A LUCKY MAN IN THE SEA, AND HE WILL COME UP WITH A FISH IN HIS MOUTH.$Arab proverb IT REQUIRES FAR MORE GENIUS TO MAKE LOVE THAN TO COMMAND ARMIES.$Ninon de Lenclos, ascribed LOVE IS ALL WE HAVE, THE ONLY WAY THAT EACH CAN HELP THE OTHER.$Euripides, “Orestes” CAN THERE BE A LOVE WHICH DOES NOT MAKE DEMANDS ON ITS OBJECTS?$Confucius, “Analects” LOVE, SUCH AS IT IS IN SOCIETY, IS ONLY THE EXCHANGE OF TWO FANTASIES, AND THE CONTACT OF TWO BODIES.$Sébastien R. N. Chamfort, “Maximes et pensées” THE WORLD IS A COMEDY TO THOSE THAT THINK, A TRAGEDY TO THOSE THAT FEEL.$Horace Walpole, letter to the Countess of Upper Ossory, 1776 DYING IS NO BIG DEAL. THE LEAST OF US WILL MANAGE THAT. LIVING IS THE TRICK.$Walter “Red” Smith, funeral elegy for Fred Corcoran THE VALUE OF LIFE LIES NOT IN THE LENGTH OF DAYS, BUT IN THE USE WE MAKE OF THEM; A MAN MAY LIVE LONG YET LIVE VERY LITTLE.$Montaigne, “Essays” IT IS NOT TRUE THAT LIFE IS ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER--IT IS ONE DAMN THING OVER AND OVER.$Edna St. Vincent Millay, letter THE WORLD HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME; AND THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AS MUCH GOOD FORTUNE AS BAD IN IT.$Machiavelli, “Discorsi” LIFE CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD BACKWARDS, BUT IT MUST BE LIVED FORWARDS.$Sören Kierkegaard, “Life” THE OCCUPATION MOST BECOMING A CIVILIZED MAN IS TO DO NOTHING.$Théophile Gautier, “Whims and Zigzags” NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW AND NO MAN IS BELOW IT; NOR DO WE ASK ANY MAN'S PERMISSION WHEN WE REQUIRE HIM TO OBEY IT.$Theodore Roosevelt, speech, 1904 THE LIFE OF THE LAW HAS NOT BEEN LOGIC; IT HAS BEEN EXPERIENCE.$Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr., “The Common Law” A VERBAL CONTRACT ISN'T WORTH THE PAPER IT'S PRINTED ON.@ - SAMUEL GOLDWYN$attributed THE LAW IS BIGGER THAN MONEY--BUT ONLY IF THE LAW WORKS HARD ENOUGH.$Thomas Dewey, quoted by his biographer Richard Norton Smith in “Thomas E. Dewey” IF YOU LIKE LAWS AND SAUSAGE, YOU SHOULD NEVER WATCH EITHER BEING MADE.$Otto von Bismarck, attributed ONE MUST LAUGH BEFORE ONE IS HAPPY OR ONE MAY DIE WITHOUT EVER HAVING LAUGHED AT ALL.$La Bruyère, “Les Caractères” THE MOST WASTED OF ALL DAYS IS THAT IN WHICH WE HAVE NOT LAUGHED.$Sébastien R. N. Chamfort, “Maximes et pensées” NO MAN WHO HAS ONCE HEARTILY AND WHOLLY LAUGHED CAN BE ALTOGETHER IRRECLAIMABLY BAD.$Thomas Carlyle, “Sartor Resartus” I FORCE MYSELF TO LAUGH AT EVERYTHING FOR FEAR OF BEING OBLIGED TO WEEP.$Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais, “The Barber of Seville” AN IDEA DOES NOT PASS FROM ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT CHANGE.$Miguel de Unamuno, “The Tragic Sense of Life” WORDS ARE WEAPONS, AND IT IS DANGEROUS TO BORROW THEM FROM THE ARSENAL OF THE ENEMY.$George Santayana, “Obiter Scripta” THE USE OF LANGUAGE IS ALL WE HAVE TO PIT AGAINST DEATH AND SILENCE.$Joyce Carol Oates, speech, 1969 MY HEAVENS! I'VE BEEN TALKING PROSE FOR THE LAST FORTY YEARS WITHOUT KNOWING IT.$Molière, “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” ONCE A WORD HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO ESCAPE, IT CAN NEVER BE RECALLED.$Horace, “Epistles” I SPEAK SPANISH TO GOD, ITALIAN TO WOMEN, FRENCH TO MEN, AND GERMAN TO MY HORSE.$Emperor Charles V, attributed THE GOOD ENDED HAPPILY, AND THE BAD UNHAPPILY. THAT IS WHAT FICTION MEANS.$Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” EVERYWHERE THERE IS ONE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE, WHICH IS THE INTEREST OF THE STRONGER.$Plato, “The Republic” LOVE OF JUSTICE IN MOST MEN IS NO MORE THAN THE FEAR OF SUFFERING INJUSTICE.$La Rochefoucauld, “Maxims” JUSTICE IS NOT TO BE TAKEN BY STORM. SHE IS TO BE WOOED BY SLOW ADVANCES.$Benjamin N. Cardozo, “The Growth of the Law” WHEN A JUDGE SITS IN JUDGMENT OVER A FELLOW MAN, HE SHOULD FEEL AS IF A SWORD IS POINTED AT HIS OWN HEART.$Talmud, “Sanhedrin” A JUDGE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE FACTS OF LIFE UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN PRESENTED INTO EVIDENCE AND EXPLAINED TO HIM AT LEAST THREE TIMES.$Lord Chief Justice Parker, interview, 1961 LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH; JEALOUSY IS AS CRUEL AS THE GRAVE.$Bible, “Song of Solomon” IF YOU CARRY WITH YOU YOUR CHILDHOOD, YOU NEVER BECOME OLDER.$Abraham Sutzkever, interview, 1985 IF I ERR IN MY BELIEF THAT THE SOULS OF MEN ARE IMMORTAL, I ERR GLADLY, AND DO NOT WISH TO LOSE SO DELIGHTFUL AN ERROR.$Cicero, “De senectute” LOYALTY TO PETRIFIED OPINION NEVER YET BROKE A CHAIN OR FREED A HUMAN SOUL.$Mark Twain, attributed AN INVASION OF ARMIES CAN BE RESISTED, BUT NOT AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME.$Victor Hugo, “Histoire d’un crime” I DETEST THAT MAN WHO HIDES ONE THING IN THE DEPTH OF HIS HEART AND SPEAKS FORTH ANOTHER.$Homer, “Iliad” THE SECRET SOURCE OF HUMOR ITSELF IS NOT JOY BUT SORROW. THERE IS NO HUMOR IN HEAVEN.$Mark Twain, “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar” THE WIT MAKES FUN OF OTHER PERSONS; THE SATIRIST MAKES FUN OF THE WORLD, THE HUMORIST MAKES FUN OF HIMSELF.$James Thurber, television interview THERE IS NO BETTER ROLE TO PLAY AMONG THE GREAT THAN THAT OF JESTER.$Denis Diderot, “Le Neveu do Rameau” BRIEF AND POWERLESS IS MAN'S LIFE; ON HIM AND ALL HIS RACE THE SLOW, SURE DOOM FALLS PITILESS AND DARK.$Bertrand Russell, “The Free Man’s Worship” NO MAN IS AN ISLAND ENTIRE OF ITSELF; EVERY MAN IS A PART OF THE CONTINENT, A PART OF THE MAIN.$John Donne, “Devotions XVII” HOSPITALITY CONSISTS IN A LITTLE FIRE, A LITTLE FOOD, AND AN IMMENSE QUIET.$Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Journal”, 1856 HOPE IS A GOOD BREAKFAST, BUT IT IS A BAD SUPPER.@ - FRANCIS BACON$“Apophthegms” IF YOU DO NOT TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT YOURSELF YOU CANNOT TELL IT ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.$Virginia Woolf, “The Moment and Other Essays”