Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
—Stephen Leacock (Canadian Humorist)
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Polymath)
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart’s spoils.
—Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (Swiss Poet)
Let us not complain against men because of their rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love of self, their forgetfulness of others. They are so made. Such is their nature.
—Jean de La Bruyere (French Author)
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
—Elizabeth Bowen (Irish Novelist)
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
—George Orwell (English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist)
Emphatic always, forcible never.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (American Writer, Aphorist)
As long as a person doesn’t admit he is defeated, he is not defeated – he’s just a little behind, and isn’t through fighting.
—Darrell Royal (American Sportsperson)
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
—Heraclitus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)