John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Lao Tzu
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Quintilian
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
Carl Sandburg
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Charlie Chaplin
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
Yves Saint Laurent
Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Franz Kafka
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Zelda Fitzgerald
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
William Butler Yeats
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.