I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. (Samuel Goldwyn)
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. (Frank A. Clark)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Henry Adams)
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. (G. K. Chesterton)
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon (Bible)
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. (Baruch Spinoza)
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash)
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown. (Chinese Proverb)
One should count each day a separate life. (Seneca)
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. (Simone Weil)