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"Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take."
By Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
By Lee Iacocca
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"Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after."
By Henry David Thoreau, ?
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"My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line."
By Steven Bernstein, Interview
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"Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."
By Evan Esar
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
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"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
By Blaise Pascal
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"Men generally believe what they wish."
By Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
By Voltaire
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"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public."
By Edgar Watson Howe
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
By Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
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"Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."
By William Hazlitt
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"Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses."
By Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
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"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."
By P. T. Barnum
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"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
By Ansel Adams
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"Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose."
By Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."
By Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
By Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."
By Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions."
By George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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