Down went the owners — greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. – W. S. Gilbert Category: Tragedy
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer Category: Tragedy
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Tragedy
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller Category: Knowledge
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt Category: work
