Category: writer
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Euripides
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan Watts
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe