The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Bring out number, weight and measure in a year of dearth.
William Blake
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible, but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always, for cowardice sometimes prevents it, since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity, and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
Richard Dawkins
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind, and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway
