If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
- Tom Robbins
- Tom Robbins
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
- Henry, Patrick
- Henry, Patrick
Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
- Ambrose Bierce
- Ambrose Bierce
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
- Carmichael, Amy
- Carmichael, Amy
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
- Mario Andretti
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
- Connolly, Cyril
- Connolly, Cyril
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
- Max L. Forman
- Max L. Forman
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
- Steven Wright
- Steven Wright
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
- Rorty, Richard
- Rorty, Richard
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilde, Oscar
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle
- Aristotle
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
- Molescholte
- Molescholte
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing
- William Ellery Channing
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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