It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.
Catalan Proverb
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
Unesco
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus
Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.
Francis Bacon
Never look at the Trombones, you'll only encourage them.
Richard Strauss
Anger cannot be dishonest.
George R Bach
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go
Joe Darion
Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay
Daniel Defoe
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us
Henry Fielding
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Laurence Sterne
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule
Charles Dickens
Read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.