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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

Lee Hawkins, in Health and Disease

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer, in Love and Hate

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

David Broder, in Law and Politics

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

Will Durant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold, in Food and Drink

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

Krystal Ann Kraus, in Men and Women

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Edmond Jules Goncourt, in Art and Literature

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler, in Altruism and Cynicism

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Henrik Ibsen, in Wealth and Poverty

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller, in Life and Death

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure