I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
—Michael Palin (English Actor, Writer, Television Traveler)
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
—Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian Writer, Poet)
In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
—John of the Cross (Spanish Roman Catholic Mystic)
Real life seems to have no plots.
—Ivy Compton-Burnett (English Novelist)
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
—Anthony Hopkins (Welsh-American Actor)
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
—Charles Sanders Peirce (American Philosopher)
A mind fallow becomes overgrown with the weeds of confusion and forgetfulness.
—Mick Burns (American Clergyman)
We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
—Desmond Morris (English Ethologist, Writer)
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
—Alan Greenspan (American Economist)
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
—Kirk Douglas (American Actor)
Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
—George Steiner (American Culture Critic)
Always give in charity to people of good conduct.
—The Jataka Tales (Genre of Buddhist Literature)
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
—M. C. Escher (Dutch Artist)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
—Russell Baker (American Journalist, Humorist)