A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
- Ruskin, John
- Ruskin, John
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
- Massie, Allan
- Massie, Allan
Spring makes everything look filthy.
- Katherine Whitehorn
- Katherine Whitehorn
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
- Evelyn Waugh
- Evelyn Waugh
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
- D'Anconia, Francisco
- D'Anconia, Francisco
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Charles Caleb Colton
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
- Tom Robbins
- Tom Robbins
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
- Muriel Spark
- Muriel Spark
The only thing new in the world is the history that you don't know.
- Harry Truman
- Harry Truman
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
- Ogden Nash
- Ogden Nash
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
- Aesop
- Aesop
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
- Crowley, Aleister
- Crowley, Aleister
Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
- Paulo Coelho
- Paulo Coelho
Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Dr. Robert Schuller
- Dr. Robert Schuller
I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.
- Mills, Hugh
- Mills, Hugh
No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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