Everyone must see and feel, that bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions; and that, if the latter only are forbidden, and the former left free, all morality will soon be at an end.
—Beilby Porteus (Bishop of London)
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt (German Statesman, Scholar)
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
—Claude Levi-Strauss (French Anthropologist)
Ideals are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
—Bill Moyers (American Journalist)
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (American Writer, Aphorist)
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
—Richard DeVos (American Businessman, Philanthropist)
Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.
—Barbara De Angelis (American Psychologist)
Silence is also an answer, sometimes the most eloquent one.
—Rosario Ferre (Puerto Rican Author)
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
—Quintilian (Roman Rhetorician, Literary Critic)
There are two kinds of marriages—where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
—Clifford Odets (American Playwright)
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
—Epicurus (Greek Philosopher)
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)