We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Nathaniel HawthorneWho would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Mason CooleyIf we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George EliotExperts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
Hedy LamarrWe are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel JohnsonAre you astonished Aulus that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud
Marcus AureliusThe basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon