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- Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
- Peter De Vries
- Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
- T. E. Lawrence (1888 - 1935), "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
- Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.
- George Saunders, The Guardian (UK) July 22, 2006
- A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- Popularity? It is glory's small change.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
- Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936)
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