A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children. ~Cindy Garner
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? ~Robert Browning, A Toccata of Galuppi's
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~Doris Lessing
When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ~Salman Rushdie
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ~Russell Lynes
Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D�haese
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. ~Peter Alexander Ustinov
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets. ~Author Unknown
He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. ~J.B. Priestly
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. ~Willa Cather
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ~William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. ~Michel de Montaigne
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations