If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
Paul Cezanne
If something is irrational that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison
Every wolf 's and lion's howl / Raises from Hell a human soul.
William Blake
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All are lunatics but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
