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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Shelley
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. William Penn
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats
I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate. Albert Einstein
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. Martin Luther
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience. Samuel Johnson
Produce great men, the rest follows. Walt Whitman
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. John Churton Collins
Live dangerously and you live right. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! William Butler Yeats
For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. Nicolaus Copernicus
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. Max Planck
Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Victor Hugo
My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere. John Barrymore
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. John Barrymore
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out Will Rogers
Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Virginia Woolf
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. Otto von Bismarck
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. Voltaire
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years. Theodore Roosevelt
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Khalil Gibran
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Mark Twain
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. Carlo Goldoni
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. William Shakespeare
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you, if you don’t let it get the best of you. Will Rogers
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. Oliver Goldsmith

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