The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

Dancing is silent poetry. (Simonides)

Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It’s the transition that’s troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

If a man does his best, what else is there? (General George S. Patton)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it. (Groucho Marx)