- A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read. (Mark Twain)
- Love makes the time pass, exactly like time that makes love pass. (Euripides)
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. (Niels Bohr)
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. (Marcus Aelius Aurelius)
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. (Bernard Mannes Baruch)
- Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. (William Shakespeare)
- A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. (Joseph Addison)
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. (Sir Francis Bacon)
- The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. (T. H. White)
- Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein)
- Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. (Susan B. Anthony)
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. (Samuel Butler)
- I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don’t think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. (Harold Bloom)
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. (Jules de Gaultier)
- That’s the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.(Miguel de Cervantes)
- I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. (Henry Beecher)
- There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1.That dear old soul; 2. That old woman ;3. That old witch.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
- The important thing is never to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein)
- When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don’t like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises. (Franklin P. Adams)