We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
—Dwight Morrow (American Businessman, Diplomat)
No doing without some ruing.
—Sigrid Undset (Norwegian Novelist)
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
—Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (American Theatre Manager)
The day I become content is the day I cease to be anything more than a man who hit home runs.
—Hank Aaron (American Baseball Player)
Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.
—Charles Bukowski (American Writer)
A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
—Judy Blume (American Author)
There’s been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
—Michael Pollan (American Food Writer)
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
—George Moore (Irish Writer)
It is very very difficult to lift the rock till the peak of the mountain. But it’s very very easy to get the same rock from the peak to the mountain foot. In the same way it is very difficult task to induce noble thoughts in to a person’s mind and to make him/her a good individual. But it’s far more simple to induce bad habits in a person.
—Subhashita Manjari (Sanskrit Anthology of Proverbs)
Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.
—Terry Pratchett (English Fantasy Writer)
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?
—Edith Evans (English Actress)
It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work—the night watchman.
—Tallulah Bankhead (American Actress)
It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth.
—George M. Humphrey (American Lawyer)
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
—John A. Macdonald (Canadian Statesman)
The worst possible outlook is indifference that says, ‘I can’t do anything about it; I’ll just get by.’ Behaving like that deprives you of one of the essentials of being human: the capacity and the freedom to feel outraged. That freedom is indispensable, as is the political involvement that goes with it.
—Stephane Hessel (French Diplomat, Writer, Concentration Camp Surviv)