A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957)
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. -Joseph Roux, priest and writer (1834-1886)
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. -Colette, writer (1873-1954)
You will find relief from vain fancies if you do every act in life as though it were your last. -Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180)
It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals. -Esther Warner Dendel, writer and artist (1910-2002)
Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. -Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro. -James Howell, writer (c. 1594-1666)
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939) The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -George Baker (1877-1965)
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
-Imbesi's Law of Conservation of Filth
Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20
years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to
destroy him.
-Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
-Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
-David Dunham
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
-William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the
most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid
undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
-Socrates, philosopher (469?-399 BCE)
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)