Bluntness is a virtue.
- Allison Ling
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
- Alvin Toffler
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
- Vera Johnson
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
- W Somerset Maugham
I don't want anything I don't deserve, if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
- Antonio Banderas
Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
- Arnold Beisser
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
- Amy Alcott
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
- Aneurin Bevan
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
- W Somerset Maugham
He who dares not , is a slave.
- William Drummond
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
- Will Cuppy
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.
- Ashleigh
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
- Bhagavad Gita
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
- Wayne Calloway
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
- Anonymous
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Heywood Brown
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Walter Prager
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.
- Henri de Lubac
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
- Gillian Anderson
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
- Irving Batcheller
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.
- J B Yeats
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
- Hume
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
- Ilya G Ehrenburg
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
- George Duhamel
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
- Henry Bolingbroke
Lessing A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
- Gotthold Ephraim
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
- Haneef Fatmi
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
- Harlan Ellison
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
- Harvey Mindess
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
- Italian Proverb
