Emma Goldman: Since every...

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
/Emma Goldman/

Rodney Dangerfield: I'm at...

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
/Rodney Dangerfield/

Edith Hamilton: It has...

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is to be educated.
/Edith Hamilton/

Lucius Accius: A man...

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
/Lucius Accius/

Al Gallagher: There are...

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
/Al Gallagher/

Antoine Rivarol: Man spends...

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
/Antoine Rivarol/

C. L. R. James: The antagonisms...

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
/C. L. R. James/

Gunther Grass: Art is...

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
/Gunther Grass/

Boris Pasternak: I don't...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
/Boris Pasternak/

Nelson Algren: Never play...

Never play cards with any man named Doc.<br>Never eat at any place called Mom's.<br>And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
/Nelson Algren/

Jack Vance: I never...

I never worked in an office in my life.
/Jack Vance/

Abraham Lincoln: All my...

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
/Abraham Lincoln/

Mark Twain: The exercise...

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.
/Mark Twain/

Robert Brault: Sometimes it's...

Sometimes it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams - assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
/Robert Brault/

Jean Paul: Every man...

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
/Jean Paul/

Michael Landon: Life has...

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
/Michael Landon/

Friedrich Nietzsche: If you...

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

Jean-Paul Sartre: The poor...

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
/Jean-Paul Sartre/

Knut Hamsun: It is...

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
/Knut Hamsun/

Tom G. Palmer: Most Europeans...

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
/Tom G. Palmer/

Silas Weir Mitchell: It's easier...

It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back.
/Silas Weir Mitchell/

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Every man...

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
/Jean-Jacques Rousseau/

Isak Dinesen: Difficult times...

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...
/Isak Dinesen/

Alan Ladd: I'm shy...

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
/Alan Ladd/

Jim Stephens: Be thankful....

Be thankful. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Thankfulness is much more dependent on attitude than circumstance. When you feel the lack of what you don't have, thank God for what you do have! At any time, there is more going right in the life of a committed Christian than there is going wrong. It's just that the wrong makes a lot more noise than the right.
/Jim Stephens/

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Gentleman...look around...

Gentleman...look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are godless and foolish, and we don't understand that life is a paradise, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
/Fyodor Dostoyevsky/