Desiderius Erasmus

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

James Arthur Baldwin

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Herman Melville

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

André Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Peter De Vries

Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.

Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Theodore Roosevelt

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

François Auguste René Rodin

Patience is also a form of action.

J. R. R. Tolkien

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

Winston Churchill

I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught.

Prince Philip

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

Louis Pasteur

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Louis Pasteur

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Olin Miller

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Hippocrates

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

John Kenneth Galbraith

“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”

E. F. Schumaker

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius–and a lot of courage–to move in the opposite direction.”

John Lubbock

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

Aristotle

“Anyone can become angry–that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, in the right way–this is not easy.”

Anonymous

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

Douglas Adams

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

R. G. Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences.

Welsh proverb

Reason is the wise man’s guide, example the fool’s.

French proverb

One meets one’s destiny often in the road one takes to avoid it.