Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
—Euripides (Ancient Greek Dramatist)
Yoga is skill in action.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher)
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
—Charles Cooley (American Sociologist)
Nothing will come of nothing.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
Deny first-truths, and reasoning is void. If an opponent denies them, we can only add: “Be not as the horse and the mule, who have no understanding.”
—Charles Simmons (American Editor, Novelist)
Cats never strike a pose that isn’t photogenic.
—Lilian Jackson Braun (American Mystery Novelist)
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
—Thomas Paine (American Nationalist)
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
—Henry Miller (American Novelist)
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
—Ivan Turgenev (Russian Novelist, Playwright)
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian Novelist)
Love’s like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
—Douglas William Jerrold (English Dramatist)