The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to see God’s sky with the stars in it.
—Elinor Glyn (British Novelist)
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.
—Alexander Pope (English Poet)
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (American Publisher)
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
—Bernard of Clairvaux (French Catholic Religious Leader)
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
—Thomas Sowell (American Conservative Economist)
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
—Susan Sontag (American Writer, Philosopher)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
—Douglas Adams (British Author)
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
—Nikolai Gogol (Russian Novelist, Dramatist)
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
—Henry Ford II (American Industrialist)
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
—French Proverb
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
—Jeremy Taylor
These written laws are just like spiders’ webs; the small and feeble may be caught and entangled in them, but the rich and mighty force through and despise them.
—Anacharsis (Scythian Prince)
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
—Walter Scott (Scottish Novelist)