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Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

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Thomas Mann: A great truth...

Thomas Mann: A great truth...

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Source: Essay on...

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Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

How success changes the opinion of men!

Source: The Will, 1800.
-- Maria...

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Henry Kissinger: The nice thing...

Henry Kissinger: The nice thing...

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their...

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John Buchan: The true definition...

John Buchan: The true definition...

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites...

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Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

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Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the...

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Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate...

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Arthur Schomburg: The American Negro...

Arthur Schomburg: The American Negro...

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future . . . History must restore what slavery took...

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Benjamin E Mays: . . ....

Benjamin E Mays: . . ....

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

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Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has...

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Wilkie Collins: This is the...

Wilkie Collins: This is the...

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can...

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Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and...

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Van Wyck Brooks: If men were...

Van Wyck Brooks: If men were...

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the...

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J B S Haldane: The wise man...

J B S Haldane: The wise man...

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as...

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George S Patton: Now if you...

George S Patton: Now if you...

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. not tired....

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence that general...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence that general...

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense...

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Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't...

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