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A belief is...

A belief is...

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Source: Amiel's Journal, 1849-1872,...

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Charles Steinmetz: Marking dynamos for...

Charles Steinmetz: Marking dynamos for...

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00 -- 2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark...

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Frank Tyger: Be a good...

Frank Tyger: Be a good...

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Source: In The...

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Lee Iacocca: So what do...

Lee Iacocca: So what do...

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try...

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Music is an...

Music is an...

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the...

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Victor Hugo: There is one...

Victor Hugo: There is one...

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has...

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Thomas Shadwell: And wit's the...

Thomas Shadwell: And wit's the...

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Source: A True Widow, II. i
-- Thomas...

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Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: Distance doesn't matter:...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Distance doesn't matter:...

Distance doesn't matter: it is only the first step that is difficult.

Source:...

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Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

I have a box of papers at home of [my own press coverage]. When I'm sixty, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Appear at places...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Appear at places...

Appear at places which the enemy must hasten to defend, march swiftly to places where you are not...

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I wonder if...

I wonder if...

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we...

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Benjamin Franklin: Well done is...

Benjamin Franklin: Well done is...

Well done is better than well said.

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

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M F K Fisher: There are many...

M F K Fisher: There are many...

There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree...

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Alvin Toffler: It is better...

Alvin Toffler: It is better...

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Source: In The...

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Eugene Ionesco: Childhood is the...

Eugene Ionesco: Childhood is the...

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly...

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Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world...

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Woody Allen: Man consists of...

Woody Allen: Man consists of...

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

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Henry Clay: Courtesies of a...

Henry Clay: Courtesies of a...

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating...

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Andrew Jackson: Heaven will be...

Andrew Jackson: Heaven will be...

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Source: In The...

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