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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Author: Robert Frost
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Author: Victor Marie Hugo
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The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.
Author: Brian Sutton-Smith
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Author: George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919)
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The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
Author: Mia Hamm
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
Author: John Sloan
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Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
Author: George William Curtis
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She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
Author: Tommy Manville
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Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
Author: William Blake
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To change and to change for the better are two different things.
Author: German proverb
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Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
Author: C. V. R. Thompson
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Author: Edward Albee
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He who feels no compassion will become insane.
Author: Hasidic Saying
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Author: Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924
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The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
Author: Unknown
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In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
Author: Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol
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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
Author: Christopher Dawson
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