Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Tho (George Santayana)
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. (Joseph Conrad)
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. (Robert Southey)
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. (Yiddish Proverb)
Better no law than laws not enforced. (Italian Proverb)
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
What if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. (Matt Groening)
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. (George Bernard Shaw)
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. (Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)