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It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Tyron Edwards

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham
English conductor (1879 - 1961)

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban
Israeli (S. African-born) diplomat & politician (1915 - 2002)

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Garn

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

In the long run, we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes
English economist (1883 - 1946)

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis
English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963)

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Robert Oppenheimer

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him.

Cher
US actress & singer (1946 - )

A hundred years for now? All new people.

Anne Lamott

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
US horror & supernatural author (1890 - 1937)

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Dorothy Parker
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birth
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

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