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- Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
- Herb Brody
- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,
a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all,
the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him,
the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing. - Thomas Nashe
- Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
- Han Suyin, "A Many Splendored Thing"
- The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
- Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Conduct of Life
- Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
- Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975), Our Town
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