“Rumor grows as it goes.” — Virgil
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” — Steve Jobs
“One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.” — Jean Giraudoux
“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.” — P. J. O’Rourke
“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. — Walter Lippmann
“As the Island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance—the boundary between the known and unknown.” — Marcelo Gleiser
“How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.” — William Rotsler
“They stayed away in droves.” — Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
“Your illusions are part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.” — William Faulkner
“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.” — Plato
“Politics is the art of marshaling hatreds.” — Unknown
“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.” — Oliver Herford
“A person is not old as long as they are seeking something. [ed]” — Jean Rostand
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
“Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.” — Rune Leknes
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.” — William Arthur Ward
“How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.” — Bill Bennot
“The only stable state is the one in which all people are equal before the law.[ed]” — Aristotle
“Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.” — Charlie Parker
“Money still talks these days… trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!” — Alfred E. Neuman
“Laws, like the spider’s webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.” — Danish Proverb
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” — Madame Marie du Deffand
“Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.” — Edgar Watson Howe
“Even a fish can escape being caught, if it keeps its mouth shut.” — Confucius
“He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sun rise.” — William Blake
“A book is a heart that beats in the chest of another.” — Rebecca Solnit
“The New York Times is read by the people who run the country; the Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country; the National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country.” — Robert J. Woodhead
“An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.” — Robert Brault
“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” — Warren Buffett
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.” — Mark Twain
“If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?” — Bill Gates
“In a world where stupidity dominates, looking good is more important than being right.” — André Spicer
“Every moment alters what came before. We reach across layers of time for the memories of our memories.” — James Gleick
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” — Yves Saint Laurent
“All progress occurs because people dare to be different.” — Harry Millner
“If you’re chasing your dream, you’re not running fast enough, run faster.” — Sean Combs
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.” — Unknown