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- All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
- Stendhal
- A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
- Thomas B. Reed
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
- St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
- Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
- Gioacchino Rosini
- Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
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