The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. Twain, Mark
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. Shaw, George Bernard
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Heilbrun, Carolyn
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Heilbrun, Carolyn
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. Borah, William E.
The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights. Getty, J. Paul
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. Casson, Herbert N.
The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent […]
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. Johnson, Samuel
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind. Moore, George
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. Epicurus
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis,vanish, – all duties even. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
