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J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

Cancer's a Funny Thing:
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more...

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Jacques Barzun: The test and...

Jacques Barzun: The test and...

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his...

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Max Frisch: The difference between...

Max Frisch: The difference between...

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's...

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Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

Source: Four Lessons of History, in Readers'...

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Michael Crichton: In the information...

Michael Crichton: In the information...

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: Woman's great mission...

Catharine Esther Beecher: Woman's great mission...

Woman's great mission is to train immature weak, and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: Crying is an...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Crying is an...

Crying is an act which one should perform only in private, for crying is a private way of groping for...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball...

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Henry David Thoreau: How many a...

Henry David Thoreau: How many a...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that...

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Charles Wesley: O for a...

Charles Wesley: O for a...

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise!

Source: In Draper's...

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Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks,...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is not...

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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E L Doctorow: We dress them...

E L Doctorow: We dress them...

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last...

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Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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Mark Twain: A habit cannot...

Mark Twain: A habit cannot...

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a...

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Jane Austen: It does not...

Jane Austen: It does not...

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any...

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Neither intelligence nor...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Neither intelligence nor...

Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence his hands will...

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Adolf Hitler: What luck for...

Adolf Hitler: What luck for...

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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