“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.” — Joseph Joubert
“If you are wondering how an outsider knows your business, check your insiders.” — Unknown
“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.” — Bill Bradley
“I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.” — Louis Armstrong
“O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.” — Friedrich Schiller
“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” — Robert Doisneau
“I believe that what we become depends on what our parents teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.[ed]” — Umberto Eco
“He is at his wit’s end – it is true that he had not far to go.” — George (Lord) Byron
“A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.” — Unknown
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” — Fulton J. Sheen
“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.” — Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “‘Where have I gone wrong?'” Then a voice says to me, “‘This is going to take more than one night.'” — Charles M. Schulz
“The person who can’t dance thinks the band is no good.” — Polish proverb
“I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.” — Salvador Dali
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
“It’s all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.” — Richard Willard Armour
“It’s clever, but is it art?” — Rudyard Kipling
“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.” — François Rabelais
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” — James Baldwin
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” — Elizabeth Taylor
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” — Josh Billings
“Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” — Edna Ferber
“A lot of people seeking new beginnings have never finished with the past.” — Byron Pulsifer
“My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too.” — Mia Hamm
“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.” — Amy Tan
“I’m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.” — Mark Twain
“A man can do more than he thinks he can, but he usually does less than he thinks he does.” — Unknown
“In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax.” — John Simon
“We control the content of our dreams.” — Thom Gunn
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” — L. P. Hartley
“It may be the rooster that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.” — Margaret Thatcher
“The best way to make somebody remember you, borrow money from them.” — Unknown
“It takes two men to make one brother.” — Israel Zangwill
“Don’t think you are on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.” — Unknown
“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” — Nelson Mandela
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell
“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.” — Ancient Indian Proverb
“If you go, go in Peace. It makes the flowers sweeter along the path.” — Mike Dolan
“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.” — Plutarch
“1) Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.” — Douglas Adams