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Patrick Henry: I have but...

Patrick Henry: I have but...

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

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Douglas Coupland: On TV people...

Douglas Coupland: On TV people...

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time...

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Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

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George Ade: One man's poison...

George Ade: One man's poison...

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George Ade: She was short...

George Ade: She was short...

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about...

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P D James: God gives every...

P D James: God gives every...

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Source:...

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Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Source: Incident at Badamaya,...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Neither man nor...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Neither man nor...

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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John Oliver Killens: Integration begins the...

John Oliver Killens: Integration begins the...

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

Source:...

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Horace Walpole: Every drop of...

Horace Walpole: Every drop of...

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

Source: Letter, 3 Jul 1752.
-- Horace...

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Horace Walpole: In all science...

Horace Walpole: In all science...

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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Romain Rolland: Every man who...

Romain Rolland: Every man who...

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all...

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Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Writers live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children,...

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Marguerite Duras: The best way...

Marguerite Duras: The best way...

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Source: Practicalities, Wasting Time,...

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John Mortimer: The shelf life...

John Mortimer: The shelf life...

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the...

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Milan Kundera: A gesture cannot...

Milan Kundera: A gesture cannot...

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of...

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Ben Hecht: Trying to determine...

Ben Hecht: Trying to determine...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching...

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