There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

-Maxwell Anderson

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

-Aristotle

Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.

-Margaret of Navarre

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

-Peter Marshall

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like the green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not.
 

-Isaiah 4:7

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

-Oscar Wilde

In private conversation between intimate friends the wisest men very often talk like the weakest; for, indeed, the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

-Joseph Addison
 

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her.

-Robert Browning

That there should be one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy.

-Thomas Carlyle

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell;
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Men and women call one another inconstant, and accuse one another of having changed their minds, when, God knows, they have but changed the object of their eye, and seen a better white or red.

- John Donne

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research.

-Wilson Mizner

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child.

- Shakespeare

The Lord went into pottery.
"Today," he said, "I'll make a few animals;
I need an owl, a tiger, a lamb and a cricket."
And he settled down to work.
But because there happened to be too little clay
Some of the figures that should have been large turned out
tiny.
"Oh!" he said, annoyed, "I'm having a bad day today
And I'm not in a good mood either."
And crushing together the four figures
He quickly created me out of them.

-Géza Gárdonyi, Történetem

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

-Woodrow Wilson

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

-Henry Adams

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.

- Victor Hugo

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

-Alexander Hamilton

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

-Nikita S. Khrushchev

Conscience and Reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbor.

-St. Augustine

A man without ambition is like a woman without beauty.

-Frank Harris

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

-Matthew 5:39

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

- Confucius