Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. (Carl Sandburg)
Walking is also an ambulation of mind. (Gretel Ehrlich)
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. (Sir Francis Bacon)
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. (Richard Dawkins)
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. (Francis Quarles)
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (T. S. Eliot)
Politics is largely a matter of heart. (R. A. Butler)
No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. (Thomas Jefferson)
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Virginia Woolf)
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. (Stanislaw J. Lec)