People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
—William Butler Yeats (Irish Poet)
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
—Ayn Rand (Russian-born American Novelist)
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
—Beverly Sills (American Singer)
Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
—Harriet Martineau (English Sociologist)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
—Unknown
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
—Ayn Rand (Russian-born American Novelist)
Let us ask ourselves; “What kind of people do we think we are?”
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)
A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
—Harriet Martineau (English Sociologist)