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Aristophanes: These impossible women!...

Aristophanes: These impossible women!...

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without...

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Philip Massinger: Some undone widow...

Philip Massinger: Some undone widow...

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,
And takes away the use of it; 1 and my sword,
Glued to my scabbard with...

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Alan Bennett: Life is rather...

Alan Bennett: Life is rather...

Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.

Source:...

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John Ciardi: A university is...

John Ciardi: A university is...

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

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Sean O'Casey: What time has...

Sean O'Casey: What time has...

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The...

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Jules Renard: Literature is an...

Jules Renard: Literature is an...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have...

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Tennessee Williams: Some mystery should...

Tennessee Williams: Some mystery should...

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left...

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Brendan Behan: I have a...

Brendan Behan: I have a...

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer...

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John Fletcher: Drink to-day, and...

John Fletcher: Drink to-day, and...

Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do 't to-morrow.


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Samuel Foote: They all fell...

Samuel Foote: They all fell...

They all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of their...

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Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him.

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Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin...

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George Gordon Byron: I am sure...

George Gordon Byron: I am sure...

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Source: Letter, 20 Jan. 1811;...

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca: For I see...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca: For I see...

For I see now that I am asleep that I dream when I am awake.

Source: Life is a...

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Maria Montessori: If education is...

Maria Montessori: If education is...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is...

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Maria Montessori: If we can,...

Maria Montessori: If we can,...

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in...

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Booker T Washington: No greater injury...

Booker T Washington: No greater injury...

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will...

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Booker T Washington: The individual who...

Booker T Washington: The individual who...

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his...

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Booker T Washington: Wherever our life...

Booker T Washington: Wherever our life...

Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder . . . wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or...

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Pierre de Coubertin: Success comprises in...

Pierre de Coubertin: Success comprises in...

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this...

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