"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

Dan Stanford

Education

Various

"The future is a better key to the present than the past."

James Graham Ballard

Time and Passing

"Happiness is a good martini, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman... or a bad woman, depending on how much happiness you can stand."

George Burns

Happiness

Woman and Man

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

Roger Federer

Manners and Ethics

"Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."

Rabindranath Tagore

Time and Passing

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."

Napoleon Hill

Intellect, Judgement

Richness and Money

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

Tom Stoppard

Art and Culture

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Courage and Fear

Time and Passing

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

Michel de Montaigne

Various

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Courage and Fear

Pain and Tears

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Family and Loneliness

God and Religion

"Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies."

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Truth and Falsity

"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."

Hansell B. Duckett

Oration and Silence

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

Martin Luther King

Friendship and Hostility

Love

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."

Victor Frankl

Good and Evil

Human

"Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it."

Chateaubriand-Francois-Rene-de

History and Nations

Justice

"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."

Cesare Lombroso

Normality and Madness

Talent and Genius

"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

"Look at the photo, but paint from life: you're an artist not a camera."

Samantha Jordaan

Art and Culture

"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos."

Kerry Thornley

Reality and Imagination

"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."

Russell Baker

History and Nations

"Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence."

Elias Canetti "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

Success and Fame

"Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Family and Loneliness

Woman and Man

"Only small minds are impressed by large numbers."

Arthur C. Clarke

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

George Orwell

Human

"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder."

Thornton Wilder "Merchant of Yonkers"

Marriage

"Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects, to show that she is only His image."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

God and Religion

Nature and Animals

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

Anthony J. D`Angelo "The College Blue Book"

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

"I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation."

Warren Bennis

Various

"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Sin and Conscience

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays, First Series"

Friendship and Hostility

"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

Lewis Mumford "The Brown Decades"

Friendship and Hostility

Youth and Age

"A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart."

Rhonda Marlow

Joy and Sadness

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

Voltaire

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

"Land, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Various

"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

Mignon McLaughin

Various

"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation."

Thornton Wilder "The Eighth Day"

Wit and Humor

"When the wine goes in, strange things come out."

Friedrich von Schiller "Wallenstein"

Health and Alcohol

"Life is the risk we cannot refuse."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Life and Death

"A literary woman's best critic is her husband."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Chapters from a Life"

Art and Culture

Marriage

"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart."

Helen Rowland "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Manners and Ethics

Marriage

"We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Truth and Falsity

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."

John Churton Collins

Friendship and Hostility

"We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros."

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

Sartre-Jean-Paul

Various

Work and Laziness

"Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."

James L. Hymes, Jr. "Childhood"

Education

Sin and Conscience

"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Youth and Age

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau "Slavery in Massachusetts"

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Law and Crime