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Lewis Carroll: I'm very brave...

Lewis Carroll: I'm very brave...

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a...

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Mickey Spillane: If the public...

Mickey Spillane: If the public...

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his...

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Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

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Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Source: c. 1983.
-- Thurgood...

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Charles Evans Hughes: Where there is...

Charles Evans Hughes: Where there is...

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights,...

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Van Wyck Brooks: The American mind,...

Van Wyck Brooks: The American mind,...

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, . . . by...

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J B S Haldane: While I do...

J B S Haldane: While I do...

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that...

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Charles A Beard: Whom the gods...

Charles A Beard: Whom the gods...

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power

Source: Four Lessons of...

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Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where you renew your springs that never dry...

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Allan Bloom: We are like...

Allan Bloom: We are like...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with...

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Martin Delany: Every people should...

Martin Delany: Every people should...

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the...

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Edward De Bono: The need to...

Edward De Bono: The need to...

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The poetry of...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The poetry of...

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is...

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George Gurdjieff: Without self knowledge,...

George Gurdjieff: Without self knowledge,...

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot...

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Peter De Vries: The rich aren't...

Peter De Vries: The rich aren't...

The rich aren't like us -- they pay less taxes.

Source: The Washington Post,...

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Evelyn Waugh: That's the public-school...

Evelyn Waugh: That's the public-school...

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you...

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Mary McCarthy: It has to...

Mary McCarthy: It has to...

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of...

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Joseph Heller: He was a...

Joseph Heller: He was a...

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Source: Catch-22,...

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John LeCarre: A desk is...

John LeCarre: A desk is...

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

Source: In Quotable...

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