The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English Poet)
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
—Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
—Ambrose Bierce (American Editor)
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise—it makes you stretch.
—Mary Kay Ash (American Entrepreneur)
No one loves the man whom he fears.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
—William Temple
A timid person is frightened before a danger; a coward during the time; and a courageous person afterward.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
—Joseph Joubert (French Essayist)
He that has never suffered extreme adversity, knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)