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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Parents are usually...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Parents are usually...

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well...

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John Burroughs: I have discovered...

John Burroughs: I have discovered...

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something...

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Alfred Nobel: Hope is nature's...

Alfred Nobel: Hope is nature's...

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Source: In

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One difference between...

One difference between...

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and...

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J B Priestley: When I was...

J B Priestley: When I was...

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed...

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Titus Maccius Plautus: In everything the...

Titus Maccius Plautus: In everything the...

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

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Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Antonin Artaud: Destroy yourselves, you...

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no...

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Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Source: Interviews with...

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Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Source: In...

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Ernst Fischer: Man, became man...

Ernst Fischer: Man, became man...

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial,...

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Michelangelo: What spirit is...

Michelangelo: What spirit is...

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: The atomic bomb...

J Robert Oppenheimer: The atomic bomb...

The atomic bomb ... made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain...

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Robert Orben: Planned obsolescence is...

Robert Orben: Planned obsolescence is...

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

Source:...

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Georges Clemenceau: When a man...

Georges Clemenceau: When a man...

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: [The] legitimate office...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: [The] legitimate office...

[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of...

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A politician will...

A politician will...

A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a patriot.

Source:...

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When all candles...

When all candles...

When all candles be out, all cats be gray.

Source: Proverbes.
-- John Heywood, (...

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Then if my...

Then if my...

Then if my friendships break and bend,
There's little need to cry
The while I know that every foe
Is faithful...

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Conversation would be...

Conversation would be...

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not...

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