"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Health and Alcohol

Love

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Brooks Adams

Oration and Silence

"The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed."

Albert Schweitzer

Various

"The only people to profit from the mistakes of others are biographers."

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Defeates and Mistakes

"Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss."

Rob Thomas

Various

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Love

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

Alexander Hamilton

Health and Alcohol

Question and Problem

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."

Piet Hein

Question and Problem

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

Donald Trump "Trump: Art of the Deal"

Richness and Money

"A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one."

Guy de Maupassant

Love

"Man is made by the places in which he lives."

Graham Greene "Brighton Rock"

Human

Life and Death

"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Saul Alinsky

Power and Weakness

"It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate."

Joseph Joubert

Question and Problem

"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."

Alexander Graham Bell

Dreams and Desires

Human

Nature and Animals

"Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning."

Emanuel Swedenborg

Life and Death

"All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought."

Joseph Joubert

Youth and Age

"If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision."

Leo Szilard

Knowledge, Ignorance

"The thing I fear most is fear."

Michel de Montaigne

Courage and Fear

"Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!"

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Sorrow and Nostalgia

"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."

Ogden Nash "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Happiness

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

Ernest Dimnet

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."

Arthur Miller

Knowledge, Ignorance

"Journalists are pleasant people who ask unpleasant questions."

Kazimierz Matan

Various

"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."

John Ruskin

Authority, Government

Education

"The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise."

Stormont Mancroft "A Chinaman in My Bath"

Health and Alcohol

"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."

Lynda Barry

Love

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."

Abraham Lincoln

Marriage

"Small is beautiful."

E. F. Schumacher

Beauty and Ugliness

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

Iris Murdoch

Love

Reality and Imagination

"Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind."

Ogden Nash "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Sin and Conscience

"A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it."

Nora Ephron "Scribble Scrabble"

Family and Loneliness

Various

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

Mae West

Sin and Conscience

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

Steven Wright

Nature and Animals

"Genius is the ability to look at things simply."

E. Lee Spence

Talent and Genius

"Poetry is the deification of reality."

Edith Sitwell

Art and Culture

Reality and Imagination

"There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Envy

Love

"Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth."

Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker) "The Oyster and the Eagle"

Truth and Falsity

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

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Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

"If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. "

Albert Einstein

History and Nations

Science and Technology

Success and Fame

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

Jules de Gaultier

Reality and Imagination

"Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting."

Isaac Watts

Pain and Tears

"We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

Thomas Jefferson

Truth and Falsity

"Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves."

English Proverbs

Richness and Money

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good."

Pythagoras

Good and Evil

Wisdom and Stupidity

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."

Marlon Brando

Art and Culture

Life and Death

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.."

Heinrich Heine

Good and Evil

Richness and Money

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History and Nations

Human