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Walter Benjamin: Each morning the...

Walter Benjamin: Each morning the...

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of...

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S I Hayakawa: It is the...

S I Hayakawa: It is the...

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding...

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S I Hayakawa: You guys are...

S I Hayakawa: You guys are...

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different...

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Hugo L Black: Laws are made...

Hugo L Black: Laws are made...

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

Source: The...

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Arthur J Goldberg: If Columbus had...

Arthur J Goldberg: If Columbus had...

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

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Albert Schweitzer: The tragedy of...

Albert Schweitzer: The tragedy of...

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Source: Recalled on...

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Albert Schweitzer: An optimist is...

Albert Schweitzer: An optimist is...

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The...

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Katherine Mansfield: Looking back, I...

Katherine Mansfield: Looking back, I...

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,...

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Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than...

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Samuel Smiles: It is a...

Samuel Smiles: It is a...

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept,...

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Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Source:...

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R S Surtees: I'll fill hup...

R S Surtees: I'll fill hup...

I'll fill hup the chinks wi' cheese.

Source: Handley Cross, Ch. 1
-- R S...

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Richard Hughes: Do your bit...

Richard Hughes: Do your bit...

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you...

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Franz Kafka: The dream reveals...

Franz Kafka: The dream reveals...

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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Erica Jong: And the trouble...

Erica Jong: And the trouble...

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Source: In...

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Max Frisch: Technology. . ....

Max Frisch: Technology. . ....

Technology. . . the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

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Leo Tolstoy: Man discovers truth...

Leo Tolstoy: Man discovers truth...

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Source: On Life, 1887.
-- Leo...

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William H Gass: Only the slow...

William H Gass: Only the slow...

Only the slow reader ... will notice the odd crowd of images flier, butcher, seal which have gathered to comment on...

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Rudolph Fisher: He's from 'way...

Rudolph Fisher: He's from 'way...

He's from 'way down behind the sun an' ripe f' the pluckin'.

Source: City of...

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