• Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. [David Hume]
  • Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. [Basho]
  • Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. [H. Jackson Brown]
  • It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. [Mark Twain]
  • When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. [Anatole France]
  • The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. [Francis Herbert Bradley]
  • To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. [Aldous Huxley]
  • Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. [Albert Einstein]
  • If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. [Rene Descartes]
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. [F. Scott Fitzgerald]
  • There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. [Benjamin Disraeli]
  • Simplicity of character is the result of profound thought.
  • If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished!
  • Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. [Voltaire]
  • Big Brother is watching [George Orwell: 1984]
  • Life is tough, it's tougher when you're stupid. [John Wayne]
  • Nothing that results from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. And those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of others. [Christopher Columbus]
  • Buy one for the price of two and get another one free!
  • People don't see the world as it is, but as they are.
  • A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. [R.A Heinlein: Notebook of Lazarus Long]
  • The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. [Helen Keller]
  • What does not kill me makes me stronger. [Friedrich Nietzsche: Twilight of the Idols]
  • A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
  • Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
  • You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" [George Bernard Shaw: Back to Methuselah]
  • The difference between solitude and loneliness is the quality of the company we keep.
  • Many ideas grow better when they are transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. [Oliver Wendell Holmes]
  • Gravity: "It isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law." [Gerry Mooney]
  • If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. [Isaac Newton]
  • The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the n-th power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn well pleases. [Comment of an English judge: Quoted by Sir Josiah Stamp in Some Economic Matters in Modern Life]