The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German Scientist)
It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things: money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich—that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
—Helen Hayes (American Actor)
All men are liable to error, and most men are … by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
—John Locke (English Philosopher)
I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.
—Robert Browning (English Poet)
By the streets of “by and by,” one arrives at the house of “never.”
—Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish Novelist)
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (American Architect)
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (American Abolitionist)
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
—William Ewart Gladstone (British Head of State)