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Ralph Nader: For almost seventy...

Ralph Nader: For almost seventy...

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of...

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Charles Hamilton Houston: Black power is...

Charles Hamilton Houston: Black power is...

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white...

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Walter F Mondale: I said I...

Walter F Mondale: I said I...

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated....

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Walter Benjamin: Boredom is the...

Walter Benjamin: Boredom is the...

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him...

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Walter Benjamin: Work on good...

Walter Benjamin: Work on good...

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a...

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Francois Rabelais: Tell the truth...

Francois Rabelais: Tell the truth...

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Source:
-- Francois Rabelais, ( ...

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Robertson Davies: The dog is...

Robertson Davies: The dog is...

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

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Annie Dillard: There is no...

Annie Dillard: There is no...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

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Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Remarks are not literature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient...

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Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Jerome K Jerome: I can see...

Jerome K Jerome: I can see...

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always...

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Alvin Toffler: Most managers were...

Alvin Toffler: Most managers were...

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.

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Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Source: Droll...

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Honore de Balzac: Behind every fortune...

Honore de Balzac: Behind every fortune...

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Erica Jong: No one ever...

Erica Jong: No one ever...

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the...

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Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of...

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John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

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Cornelius Nepos: The mother of...

Cornelius Nepos: The mother of...

The mother of a careful man seldom has cause for weeping.

Source: In Webster's...

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John Dalberg Acton: Learn as much...

John Dalberg Acton: Learn as much...

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Source: In Quotations of Wit and Wisdom,...

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