"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark."
------------------Ancient Zen saying
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated.... To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality."
-------------— Ellen Glasgow, American author (1874-1945)
"There are two insults which no human will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble."
-----------— Sinclair Lewis, American author (1885-1951)
"Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel."
----------— Renata Adler, American writer.
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
---------- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet and philosopher (1803-1882).
"Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of filial reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external."
--------- Louise Imogen Guiney, American poet and essayist (1861-1920).
"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."
--------- Malayan proverb.
"The worst cynicism - a belief in luck."
------------ Joyce Carol Oates, American author.
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."
---------- Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet (1672-1719)
"He who tells the truth must have one foot in the stirrup."
----------Armenian proverb.
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: Cut it."
------------Alfred Hitchcock.
"If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost."
-----------Herb Cohen.
"The first human being who hurled a curse instead of a weapon against his adversary was the founder of civilization."
"Every soul is a melody which needs renewing."
-------- Stephane Mallarme, French essayist and poet (1842-1898).
"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
-----— Robert G. Ingersoll, American lawyer and politician (1833-1899).
"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority."
----— Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (1828-1906).
"To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak."
------— Jean Baptiste Massillon, French clergyman (1663-1742).
"My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad."
------- Olive Schreiner, South African author and feminist (1855-1920).
"It is impossible to write ancient history because we lack source materials, and impossible to write modern history because we have far too many."
------- Charles Peguy, French poet and writer (1873-1914).
"Charity looks at the need and not at the cause."
---------------- German proverb.
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
------------ Henry James, American author (1843-1916).
"A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth."
--------— Dag Hammarskjold, U.N. Secretary-General (1905-1961).
"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about - the more you have left when anything happens."
----— Ethel Barrymore, American actress (1879-1959).
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
---------- John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, English journalist (1838-1923).
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man."
-------- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940).
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."
-------— Betty Friedan, American feminist and author.
"THINK before you think!"
------- Stanislaw J. Lec, Polish poet, author and satirist (1909-1966).
"There are no warlike peoples - just warlike leaders."
------ Ralph J. Bunche, American diplomat (1904-1971).