Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting
convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
-- Bertrand Russell

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-- Krishnamurti

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
-- Margaret Peters

Do not consider painful what is good for you.
-- Euripides

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark Twain

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
-- Confucius

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
-- Franklin P. Adams

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is
nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which
he is clothed, and not to be able to estimate the worth and degree of each
thing accordingly?
-- Michelangelo

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates
that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a
majority of the people.
--David Edwards, British columnist, "Burning All Illusions"

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is.
And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.
-- Auguste Rodin

I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
-- Linus Van Pelt, Peanuts

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
-- Jay Leno

another version:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day;
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime;
give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress
requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-- Russell Baker

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,
where it often substitutes for both.
-- John Andrew Holmes

"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."
--Ira Gassen

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
--William James

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than
to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.
--A. A. Hodge