"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." -Albert Einstein
"Any fool can make a rule/And every fool will mind it." -Thoreau
"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know." -Pascal
"No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,/that the largest heart is soonest broken." -Landor
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" -Napoleon
"What fools these mortals be!" -Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?" -Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies." -J.M.Barrie
"How many angels can dance on the point of a very fine needle without jostling each other?" -Isaac D'Israeli
"Do or do not. There is no try." -our favorite little green man, Yoda
"I believe because it is impossible." (Credo quia impossibile.) -Tertullian, De Carne Cristi
"Blessings upon Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books." -Carlyle
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign." - Anatole France
"Things do not change; we change." -Thoreau
"Character is what you are in the dark." -Dwight L. Moody
"My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so." -Robert G. Ingersoli
"Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics." -S.T.Coleridge
One definition of a cynic: "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde
"No light, but rather darkness visible." -Milton
"The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion." -Washington Irving
"There lives more faith in honest doubt,/Believe me, than in half the creeds." -Tennyson
"The poetry of earth is never dead;...The poetry of earth is ceasing never." -Keats
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." -Henry Adams
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." -Nicholas M. Butler
"The reason why birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings." -J.M.Barrie
"...fools rush in where angels fear to tread." -Pope
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." -Amiel
"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nie per cent perspiration." -Thomas A. Edison
"Genius, cried the commuter,/As he ran for the 8:13,/ Consists of an infinite capacity/ For catching trains." -Christopher Morley
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him." -Swift
"God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things." -Harry Emerson Fosdick
"There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage to the sun." -Sir Thomas Browne
"To see a world in a grain of sand,/And a heaven in a wild flower,/ To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,/ And eternity in an hour." -Blake
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." -Helen Keller
"The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction." -Dr. Henry Gibbons, Definition of a Kiss
"The human knee is a joint and not an entertainment." -Percy Hammond (quoted by Mark Sullivan in Our Times, III
"Knowledge is power." -Hobbes
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." -Socrates
"The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." -New Testament, II Corinthians, III, 6
"A liar needs a good memory." -Quintillian
"We are such stuff/ As dreams are made on and our little life/ Is rounded with a sleep." -Shakespeare, The Tempest, IV, 1
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see/ The pretty follies that themselves commit." -Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, II, 6
"Men are but children of a larger growth." -Dryden
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy." (Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria;) -Dante, Inferno, V
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money." -Agassiz
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to." -New England Saying
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." -Jewish proverb
"Mouth: In man the gateway to the soul; in women, the outlet of the heart." -Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"We are the music-makers,/ And we are the dreamers of dreams,/ Wandering by lone sea-breakers,/ And sitting by desolate streams." -A. O'Shaughnessy, The Music-Makers
A little nonsense now and then/Is relished by the best of men." -old nursery rhyme
