Telling the truth is a pretty hard thing.
      Thomas Wolfe

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
      Winston Churchill

I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.
      Woody Allen

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
      Vince Lombardi

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
      Last words of Spanish playwright Lope de Vega

Some truth there was, but
   dash'd and brew'd with lies,
To please the fools, and puzzle
   all the wise.
      John Dryden

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
      Mark Twain

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
      Marcus Aurelius

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
      Plato

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
      W. Somerset Maugham

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
      Mark Twain

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I never tried.
      Mae West

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
      Derek Bok

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
      Oscar Wilde

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
      Goethe

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
      Winston Churchill

Any ordinary man can ... surround himself with two thousand books ... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
      Augustine Birrell

Education makes people easy to lead, but impossible to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
      Henry Peter Brougham

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
      Sydney Smith, on Macaulay

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
      Luther Burbank

A good man is always a beginner.
      Martial

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
      Jerome K. Jerome

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
      John Dewey

Genius is perseverence in disguise.
      Mike Newlin

It is good to expose a matter in two ways simultaneously so as to give it both a right foot and a left. Truth can stand on one leg to be sure; but with two it can walk and get about.
      Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
      Thomas Jefferson

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
      General George S. Patton

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
      Thomas Alva Edison

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