If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
—Stopford Brooke (Irish Clergyman, Writer)
One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome.
—Murasaki Shikibu (Japanese Diarist, Novelist)
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts—spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back—length of life.
—Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (American Philanthropist)
Genius is not essential to good preaching, but a live man is.
—Austin Phelps (American Presbyterian Clergyman)
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
—Constantin Brancusi (Romanian-French Sculptor)
There is nothing in human life so important and urgent as raising the next generation, and yet it also feels as if we have very little control over the outcome.
—Adam Gopnik (American Essayist, Critic)
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
—Dorothy Fuldheim (American TV Journalist)
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one’s whole life.
—Chilon of Sparta (Spartan Magistrate)
What passes for good luck is really an infinite number of little good decisions.
—Richard Steinheimer (American Railroad Photographer)
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
—Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher)
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
—John Henry Newman (British Theologian, Poet)
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
—Jim Bishop (American Journalist)
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
—Tom Landry (American Football Coach)