Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot Category: Miscellaneous
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield Category: Miscellaneous
The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. – Chester Bowles, New Republic, 22 July 1946 Category: Miscellaneous
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. – Simone Weil Category: Miscellaneous
Gold medals arent really made of gold. Theyre made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. – Dan Gable Category: Sports
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweetner of life, and solder of society. – Robert Blair Category: Friendship
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. – Robert Frost Category: Society
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. – Samuel Johnson Category: great
