We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster
This Mr Dryden calls `the fairy way of writing'.
Joseph Addison
We often pardon those that annoy us but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny
Joseph Addison
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun Tzu
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
