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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. IV: Cities of the Plain (1921-1922), Pt. II, Ch. 1
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost1874–1963
The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren1891–1974
When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Woody Allenborn 1935Examining Psychic Phenomena
No problem is so formidable that you can’t walk away from it.
Charles M. Schulz1922–2000
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Four be the things I’d have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Address at Princeton University, “The Educated Citizen” (22 March 1954).
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
?UnattributedOften credited to William Ralph Inge
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784