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

Confucius, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in Wisdom and Ignorance

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert H. Humphrey, in Law and Politics

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur, in Success and Failure

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Benny Hill, in Men and Women

All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet, in Art and Literature

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Altruism and Cynicism

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

Molly Ivins, in Law and Politics

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln, in Law and Politics

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley, in Science and Religion

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Rami Belson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue