Adults are obsolete children.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
—Sydney J. Harris (American Journalist)
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.
—Captain George T. Hewitt
With most people, unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.—Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
—Aaron Burr
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
—C. S. Lewis (Irish-born British Children’s Books Writer)
We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (British Poet)
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
—Bernard Berenson (Russian-born American Art Historian)
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
—George Horace Lorimer (American Editor)
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (American Jurist)
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
—Polybius
Too much is unwholesome.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
—John Nuveen
Don’t look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you’ll know you’re dead.
—Tennessee Williams (American Playwright)