[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly1 bewildered. Al Capp (1909 - 1979) Art is the imposing2 of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic3 enjoyment4 is recognition of the pattern. Alfred N...

How many a dispute could have been deflated1 into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) The Argument from Intimidation2 is a confession3 of intellectual impotence. Ayn Rand (1905 -...

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces y...

In every American there is an air of incorrigible1 innocence2, which seems to conceal3 a diabolical4 cunning. A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936) Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated5...

In America any boy may become President and I suppose its just one of the risks he takes. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952 There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whethe...

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. American Proverb The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996) Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Edgar Berge...

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire...

Wisdom doesnt automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. Its true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978 I have enjoyed greatly the second b...

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial1 Navigation, 1974 People who ask our advice...

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,I LIKE ads. Its...