Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

Edna St Vincent Millay

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday, so much is true.
- Edna St Vincent Millay

Kojiro Tomita

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
- Kojiro Tomita

Colette

"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."
- Colette

Will Durant

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
- Will Durant

George Bernard Shaw

“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Archbishop of Canterbury

“I sometimes think Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the common people.”
- Archbishop of Canterbury

Pope Leo XIII

Nothing is more important than to war on war.
- Pope Leo XIII

Franklin P. Jones

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones

Czech Proverb

"The big thieves hang the little ones."
- Czech Proverb

H. L. Mencken

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- H. L. Mencken

Steven Wright

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
- Steven Wright

Olivia Ross

“Homework is continuous, but my brain is discrete.”
- Olivia Ross (2007)

William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.- William Congreve

Ambrose Bierce

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.
- Ambrose Bierce

Henny Youngman

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
- Henny Youngman

Muhammad

Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots.
- Muhammad

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

The more things change, the more they remain the same
- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Scott Adams

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
- Scott Adams

Elbert Hubbard

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
- Elbert Hubbard

Napoleon

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
- Napoleon

George Eliot

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
- George Eliot (1819-1880)

W. Somerset Maugham

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

Leslie Miklosy

If I lose my way, can I take somebody else's?
- Leslie Miklosy

John A. Wheeler

“If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.”
- John A. Wheeler (1911 - 2008)

Buddha

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
- Buddha

Isaac Asimov

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
- Isaac Asimov

Mencius

Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.
- Mencius

Mark Twain

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
- Mark Twain