Common sense in so far as it exists is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics that action and reaction are equal and opposite that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. Forster
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Woodrow Wilson
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow, make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
Marcus Aurelius
Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.
William Blake
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
