Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Carl Sandburg
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Quintilian
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it’s the courage to continue that counts.
Leonardo da Vinci
Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.
Jane Austen
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Marcus Aurelius
Remember that all is opinion.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Blaise Pascal
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.