NOTHING GREAT IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT PASSION.$Hegel, “Philosophy of History”
IT TAKES ALL THE RUNNING YOU CAN DO TO KEEP IN THE SAME PLACE.@ - LEWIS CARROLL$“Through the Looking-Glass”
HUMAN HISTORY BECOMES MORE AND MORE A RACE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND CATASTROPHE.$H. G. Wells, “The Outline of History”
EDUCATION IS WHAT SURVIVES WHEN WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN.$B. F. Skinner, “Education in 1984”
YOU CAN'T EXPECT A BOY TO BE DEPRAVED UNTIL HE HAS BEEN TO A GOOD SCHOOL.@ - SAKI$“A Baker's Dozen”
IF BY BEING OVERSTUDIOUS, WE IMPAIR OUR HEALTH AND SPOIL OUR GOOD HUMOR, LET US GIVE IT UP.$Montaigne, “Essays”
THE TRUTH IS WE ARE ALL CAUGHT IN A GREAT ECONOMIC SYSTEM WHICH IS HEARTLESS.$Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom”
ONE MUST LEARN BY DOING THE THING; THOUGH YOU THINK YOU KNOW IT, YOU HAVE NO CERTAINTY UNTIL YOU TRY.$Sophocles, “Trachiniae”
MEN ARE ALL ALIKE IN THEIR PROMISES. IT IS ONLY IN THEIR DEEDS THAT THEY DIFFER.$Molière, “The Miser”
UNLESS A MAN FEELS HE HAS A GOOD ENOUGH MEMORY, HE SHOULD NEVER VENTURE TO LIE.@ - MONTAIGNE$“Essays”
IT HAS LONG BEEN AN AXIOM OF MINE THAT THE LITTLE THINGS ARE INFINITELY THE MOST IMPORTANT.@ - A. CONAN DOYLE$“A Case of Identity”
IN THE REAL DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL IT IS ALWAYS THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.@ - F. SCOTT FITZGERALD$“The Hours”
LET US CROSS OVER THE RIVER AND REST UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES.$Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, dying words, 1863
WISDOM CONSISTS IN BEING ABLE TO DISTINGUISH AMONG DANGERS AND MAKE A CHOICE OF THE LEAST HARMFUL.$Machiavelli, “The Prince”
NOTHING IN LIFE IS SO EXHILARATING AS TO BE SHOT AT WITHOUT RESULT.$Winston Churchill, “The Story of the Malakand Field Force”
EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES...THE COWARD DOES IT WITH A KISS, THE BRAVE MAN WITH A SWORD.$Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
WHY DO YOU ROB BANKS? BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS.@ - WILLIE SUTTON$attributed by reporter, although Sutton denied saying it
IT'S A WICKED WORLD, AND WHEN A CLEVER MAN TURNS HIS BRAINS TO CRIME, IT IS THE WORST OF ALL.$Arthur Conan Doyle, “Adventure of the Speckled Band”
COURAGE IS RESISTANCE TO FEAR, MASTERY OF FEAR - NOT ABSENCE OF FEAR.@ - MARK TWAIN$“Pudd’nhead Wilson's Calendar”
COURAGE IS ALMOST A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. IT MEANS A STRONG DESIRE TO LIVE TAKING THE FORM OF A READINESS TO DIE.$G. K. Chesterson, “Orthodoxy”
WHEN I AM IN THE COUNTRY I WISH TO VEGETATE LIKE THE COUNTRY.@ - WILLIAM HAZLITT$“On Going on a Journey”
THE MORE THE PLEASURES OF THE BODY FADE AWAY, THE GREATER TO ME IS THE PLEASURE AND CHARM OF CONVERSATION.@ - PLATO$“The Republic”
THERE IS ALWAYS ONE MOMENT IN CHILDHOOD WHEN THE DOOR OPENS AND LETS THE FUTURE IN.$Graham Greene, “The Power and the Glory”
CHARM IS A WAY OF GETTING THE ANSWER YES WITHOUT EVER HAVING ASKED A CLEAR QUESTION.$Albert Camus, “The Fall”
THE BASIC FACT TODAY IS THE TREMENDOUS PACE OF CHANGE IN HUMAN LIFE.$Jawaharlal Nehru, “Credo”
CHANGE IS INEVITABLE IN A PROGRESSIVE SOCIETY. CHANGE IS CONSTANT.$Benjamin Disraeli, speech, 1867
EVERY SUPPRESSED OR EXPUNGED WORD REVERBERATES THROUGH THE EARTH FROM SIDE TO SIDE.$Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Compensation”
BOOKS ARE GOOD ENOUGH IN THEIR OWN WAY, BUT THEY ARE A MIGHTY BLOODLESS SUBSTITUTE FOR LIFE.$Robert Louis Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers”
TAKE CALCULATED RISKS. THAT IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM BEING RASH.$General George S. Patton, letter to his son, 1944
ALAS, AFTER A CERTAIN AGE, EVERY MAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN FACE.$Albert Camus, “The Fall”
A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES MUST BEGIN WITH A SINGLE STEP.$Lau-Tzu, “Tao Te Ching”
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE THE MOST USELESS: PEACOCKS AND LILIES, FOR INSTANCE.$John Ruskin, “The Stones of Venice”
THINK OF ALL THE BEAUTY STILL LEFT AROUND YOU AND BE HAPPY.@ - ANNE FRANK$“Diary of a Young Girl”
KEEP AWAY FROM BOOKS AND FROM MEN WHO GET THEIR IDEAS FROM BOOKS, AND YOUR OWN BOOKS WILL ALWAYS BE FRESH.$George Bernard Shaw, “Bernard Shaw’s Letters to Siegfried Trebitsch”
PROPER WORDS IN PROPER PLACES MAKE THE TRUE DEFINITION OF STYLE.$Jonathan Swift, letter to a young clergyman
A GOOD STYLE MUST HAVE AN AIR OF NOVELTY, AT THE SAME TIME CONCEALING ITS ART.$Aristotle, “Rhetoric”
PUBLISHING A VOLUME OF POETRY IS LIKE DROPPING A ROSE PETAL DOWN THE GRAND CANYON AND WAITING FOR AN ECHO.$Don Marquis, “The Sun Dial”
IF POETRY COMES NOT AS NATURALLY AS THE LEAVES TO A TREE, IT HAD BETTER NOT COME AT ALL.@ - JOHN KEATS$letter to John Taylor, 1818
POETRY DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE BEAUTIFUL TO STICK IN THE DEPTHS OF OUR MEMORY.$Colette, “Under the Blue Lantern”
WITH COLOR ONE OBTAINS AN ENERGY THAT SEEMS TO STEM FROM WITCHCRAFT.@ - HENRI MATISSE$quoted by Michael Brenson in “The New York Times”
I KNOW ONLY TWO TUNES: ONE IS “YANKEE DOODLE,” AND THE OTHER ISN’T.@ - ULYSSES S. GRANT$Attributed
ONLY THROUGH ART CAN WE EMERGE FROM OURSELVES AND KNOW WHAT ANOTHER PERSON SEES.$Marcel Proust, “Maxims”
THE NAME OF PEACE IS SWEET AND THE THING ITSELF IS GOOD, BUT BETWEEN PEACE AND SLAVERY THERE IS THE GREATEST DIFFERENCE.$Cicero, “Philippics”
SPEAK WHEN YOU ARE ANGRY AND YOU WILL MAKE THE BEST SPEECH YOU WILL EVER REGRET.$Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
OLD AGE IS THE MOST UNEXPECTED OF ALL THE THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A MAN.$Leon Trotsky, “Diary in Exile”
OLD AGE HAS ITS PLEASURES, WHICH, THOUGH DIFFERENT, ARE NOT LESS THAN THE PLEASURES OF YOUTH.$W. Somerset Maugham, “The Summing Up”
ONE KEEPS ON FORGETTING OLD AGE UP TO THE VERY BRINK OF THE GRAVE.$Colette, “My Mother and Illness”
