"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened."

Jennifer Yane

Youth and Age

"If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it."

Dorothy Parker

Richness and Money

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

Fran Lebowitz

Family and Loneliness

Richness and Money

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Science and Technology

"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."

Roald Dahl

Time and Passing

Work and Laziness

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

Christopher Hampton

Art and Culture

"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

William James

God and Religion

Various

"All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

Shirley Abbott

Memory

Reality and Imagination

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

Emily Dickinson

God and Religion

"A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?"

Emily Dickinson from her letter to James D. Clark

Various

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

Groucho Marx

Youth and Age

"It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine."

Mahatma Gandhi

Human

"My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do, they might tell you something you don't want to hear."

Joseph Delaney "The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch"

Woman and Man

"Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Happiness

Memory

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Poor people have problems; rich people have challenges."

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Question and Problem

Richness and Money

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."

Aldous Huxley

Intellect, Judgement

"There are two classes of poets: the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art and Culture

"Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow."

English Proverbs

Sin and Conscience

Sorrow and Nostalgia

"Computers are like a bicycle for our minds."

Steve Jobs

Science and Technology

"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it."

Dudley Moore

Science and Technology

Various

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness

Health and Alcohol

"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

Paul Theroux

Destiny and Fate

Reality and Imagination

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

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

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

"Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic."

Christina Stead

Human

Various

"I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do in order to do good."

Robert McNamara

Good and Evil

Human

"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."

Albert Schweitzer

God and Religion

"Art is a jealous mistress."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Art and Culture

"Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator's will."

Jewish Proverbs

God and Religion

Joy and Sadness

"I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them."

Orson Scott Card "Speaker for the Dead"

Love

Truth and Falsity

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

Edith Sitwell "Taken Care Of"

Truth and Falsity

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."

Ann Landers

Truth and Falsity

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

Pierre Corneille "Le Cid"

Health and Alcohol

"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Hermann Broch "The Spell"

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

"Eternity is the time required to visit every area of the universe."

Kazimierz Matan

Time and Passing

"I don`t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."

William Somerset Maugham

Time and Passing