Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Category: Miscellaneous
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White Category: Miscellaneous
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. – Voltaire, 1767 Category: Miscellaneous
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad Category: Miscellaneous
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, well likely not see another like him. – Dick Van Dyke Category: Humor
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? – Yevgeny Zamyatin Category: Happiness
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. РAndr̩ Gide Category: Philosophical
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. – Paul Harris Category: Intelligence
