You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) |
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt? Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) |
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders. Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) |
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
A picture is an intermediate something between a thought and a thing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
In song and dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community: he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying up into the air, dancing. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. Bill Clinton (1946-) |
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) |
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) |
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) |
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) |
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Our friendship may never be perfect. No friendship is. But I hope it will last forever. Bill Clinton (1946-) |
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Elegance is inferior to virtue. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) |
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping A remembrance in one's heart... Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) |