Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt.
—Anthony Bourdain (American Chef, TV Personality)
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
—Herodotus (Ancient Greek Historian)
Always remember, money isn’t everything—but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
—Earl Wilson (American Newspaper Columnist)
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
—Henry Miller (American Novelist)
Public opinion is always in advance of the law.
—John Galsworthy (English Novelist, Playwright)
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
—Owen Feltham (English Essayist)
Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.
—Larry King (American TV Personality)
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
—George S. Patton (American Military Leader)
What people with disabilities want is to relate. This is something unique. It makes people who are closed up in the head become human. The wonderful thing about people with disabilities is that when someone important comes, they don’t care. They care about the relationship. So they have a healing power, a healing power of love.
—Jean Vanier (French-Canadian Humanitarian)
Hope not for impossibilities.
—Thomas Fuller (English Cleric, Historian)
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E. B. White (American Essayist, Humorist)
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
—Peter Medawar (British Immunologist, Writer)
Two are an army against one.
—Icelandic Proverb
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood—no more—to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American Poet, Journalist)