Do not depend on others for safety — Help yourself. – Safety saying, circa early 1900s Category: Safety
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. – Carlos Castenada Category: Knowledge
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. – Nancy Mitford Category: Aristocracy
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies Category: Quotations
