No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time—but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
—Charles Erwin Wilson (American Businessperson)
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
—Yuval Noah Harari (Israeli Historian)
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Poet)
There is a difference between desire and desperation.
—Tyra Banks (American Supermodel)
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
—Franz Boas (American Anthropologist)
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
—Barbara De Angelis (American Psychologist)
Justice is incidental to law and order.
—J. Edgar Hoover (American Government Official)
The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
No race can prosper ’til it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the field, as in writing a poem.
—Booker T. Washington (African-American Educationist)
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
—H. L. Mencken (American Journalist, Literary Critic)
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
—E. O. Wilson (American Sociobiologist)
A beautiful young lady is an act of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
—Louis Nizer (American Lawyer, Author)
A tyrannical sultan is better than constant anarchy.
—Egyptian Proverb
Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.
—Albert Memmi (Tunisian Novelist)
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable byproduct of all virtuous endeavor.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (American Theologian)