Gilbert K. Chesterton

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

C. S. Lewis

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
- C. S. Lewis

George H Bush

I want a kinder, gentler nation.
- George H Bush

Abraham Maslow

We do what we are and we are what we do.
- Abraham Maslow

English Proverb

Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- English Proverb

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Mason Cooley

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
- Mason Cooley

Izaak Walton

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
- Izaak Walton

William Shakespeare

Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.
- William Shakespeare

Henry Kissinger

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger

John Lydon Rotten

My reputation is a media creation.
- John Lydon Rotten

Marvin Minsky

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
- Marvin Minsky

George Herbert

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
- George Herbert

Dorothy Parker

"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."
- Dorothy Parker

Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
- Plautus

George Miller

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
- George Miller

Kahlil Gibran

“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
- Kahlil Gibran, Anthem of Humanity (1883 - 1931)

Rose Macaulay

"Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again."
- Rose Macaulay

John Dryden

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
- John Dryden

St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Niccolo Machiavelli

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Tao Te Ching

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
- Tao Te Ching

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

Bertrand Russell

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.
- Bertrand Russell

Marshall Mcluhan

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
- Marshall Mcluhan

Mark Twain

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it.
- Mark Twain