If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
—Agatha Christie (British Novelist)
The world isn’t going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
—A. J. Liebling (American Journalist)
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
—George Colman the Younger (English Playwright)
The greatest truth is the most simple one.
—Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)
If you rest, you rust.
—Helen Hayes (American Actress)
Hunger will make a monkey eat pepper.
—Haitian Proverb
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
—Lillian Hellman (American Playwright)
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
—Christopher Hitchens (Anglo-American Social Critic)
There comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.
—Colin Powell (American Military Leader)
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
—Luciano Pavarotti (Italian Tenor)
A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs. A man must say what he believes clearly, without dogma, and without guile.
—Pierre Trudeau (Canadian Statesman)
Life has no meaning in itself but it is itself an opportunity to make it meaningful.
—Sri Rajneesh (Osho) (Indian Spiritual Teacher)
The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them.
—Jose Saramago (Portuguese Novelist)
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
—Joseph Conrad (Polish-born British Novelist)
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)
Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared.
—Bonaventure (Italian Christian Scholar)