The cure for boredom1 is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed) Only the curious will learn and only the resolute2 overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me m...
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860 Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton A...
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that its against the law. Alex Levin Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. Alfred E. Newman Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russel...
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Frugality1 without creativity is deprivation2. Amy Dacyczyn So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient3, happy idling, dawdling4 and...
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951) I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. E. M. Forster...
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927 Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944 Courage is not...
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) Talking with you is sort of the conversational2 equivalent of an out of body experience. Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin Hobbes Sa...
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Alfred E. Wiggam A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy1. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech in the House of Commons, Mar2. 3, 1845 I am...
A clear conscience is a good pillow. American Proverb A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. Anonymous1 A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Anonymous A good conscience is a continual Christmas. Benjamin Frankli...
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, It all depends on me. Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) I was always looking outside myself for strength and con...