Category: writer
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
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I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
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Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
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I’ve got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin’s not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
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When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides