"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

Samuel Butler

Art and Culture

Life and Death

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

Voltaire

Truth and Falsity

"Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Manners and Ethics

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Richness and Money

Trust

"Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."

Mahatma Gandhi

Love

Truth and Falsity

"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound."

Marshall McLuhan "Understanding Media"

Science and Technology

Various

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."

Frank Herbert "Dune"

Reality and Imagination

"The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak."

Swedish Proverbs

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Question and Problem

"An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The Dagger with Wings"

Art and Culture

"But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

Jesus Christ Matthew 5:27-28

Sin and Conscience

"Life + Desire = Man; Life - Desire = God"

Sathya Sai Baba

Dreams and Desires

God and Religion

Human

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein

Talent and Genius

Wisdom and Stupidity

"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."

Judy Garland

Love

Success and Fame

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

P.J. O`Rourke "Parliament of Whores"

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

William Somerset Maugham

Wit and Humor

"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

"The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union."

Plato "Phaedrus"

Human

"All that is not given is lost."

Rabindranath Tagore

Richness and Money

Various

"Death is life's way of telling you you're fired."

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Life and Death

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

Rabindranath Tagore

God and Religion

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

Jonathan Swift

Law and Crime

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

Anthony Robbins

Success and Fame

"The United States never lost a war or won a conference."

Will Rogers

History and Nations

Politics and Diplomacy

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

Mignon McLaughin

Intellect, Judgement

Love

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

Mahatma Gandhi

Defeates and Mistakes

Freedom and Servitude

"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."

Edward de Bono

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage

"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Reality and Imagination

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."

Günther Grass

Art and Culture

Life and Death

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Thomas Mann

Peace and War

Question and Problem

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Manners and Ethics

"Man often finds relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another."

Anatol France

Work and Laziness

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

Albert Camus

Freedom and Servitude

"Conscience is God's presence in man."

Emanuel Swedenborg

God and Religion

Sin and Conscience

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."

Carl Van Doren

Art and Culture

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

Voltaire "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

"Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them."

Ivan Illich "Deschooling Society"

Freedom and Servitude

Richness and Money

"This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them."

William Faulkner

Freedom and Servitude

"You may delay, but Time will not."

Benjamin Franklin

Time and Passing

"Better single than sorry."

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Family and Loneliness

"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Manners and Ethics

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Douglas Everett

Reality and Imagination

"Habit is stronger than reason."

George Santayana

Intellect, Judgement

Manners and Ethics

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."

Herbert Asquith

Youth and Age

"All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love."

Eleanor Farjeon

Courage and Fear

Love

"Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."

Franz Grillparzer "Libussa"

Time and Passing

"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you."

Helen Rowland

Marriage

Woman and Man