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Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Source: In The Harper...

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Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the...

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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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James Truslow Adams: Age acquires no...

James Truslow Adams: Age acquires no...

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: The lowest and...

Arthur Conan Doyle: The lowest and...

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and...

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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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Wilkie Collins: I am not...

Wilkie Collins: I am not...

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

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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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Mother Teresa: To keep a...

Mother Teresa: To keep a...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Source: In Saints Among...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: All in all,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: All in all,...

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The English are...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The English are...

The English are the nation of consummate cant.

Source: Twilight of the Idols, ...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Not necessity, not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Not necessity, not...

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a...

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Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: In oneself lies...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: In oneself lies...

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand....

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Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Source: The...

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Lin Yutang: It is not...

Lin Yutang: It is not...

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it?s more the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Siegfried Sassoon: Soldiers and dreamers;...

Siegfried Sassoon: Soldiers and dreamers;...

Soldiers and dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of fire lit homes, clean beds, and...

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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