There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Lane Olinghouse
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George Burns (1896 - 1996)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell; Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Milton
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." John G. Riefenbaker
Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die. Giacomo Leopardi
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. Abraham Lincoln
After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true. Spock
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Freud
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never escape it alive anyway.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Amiel
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