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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. – German proverb
A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. – Primo Levi
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting. – Rahul Katragadda
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles. – B. B. Warfield
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. – Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. – Pam Brown
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. – Homer
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. – William James
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance. – Jean Iris Murdoch
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness. – Chase LeBlanc
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps in the forest and waits in the celestial spheres of the brain. – Dejan Stojanovic
A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. – Albert Einstein
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. – Albert Einstein
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. – William Shakespeare
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. – Rita Mae Brown
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. – Dwight Lyman Moody
A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things. – Marion Hammer
A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don't walk away - forevermore, he don't walk away – John Wayne
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. – Miguel de Unamuno
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. – D. Elton Trueblood

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