Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.
--Erich Fromm
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
--Henry J. Kaiser
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
--Cartoon in The New Yorker
The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
It often shows an excellent command of language to say nothing.
--Karol Newlin
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
--William Penn
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
--Voltaire
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
--Leonardo da Vinci
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
--John Webster
I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
--Abraham Lincoln
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know."
--Andre Maurois
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
--Seneca
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
--John Ruskin
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
--William Strong
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
--Dostoyevsky
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
--John Stuart Mill
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
--Mel Brooks
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
--Emile Zola
Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
--Scott Adams
It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
--Albert Schweitzer
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BCE)
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