Max Cuyler @kiki active 9 years, 8 months ago

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

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

Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote – Man of La Mancha)

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. (G. B. Burgin)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

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)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

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

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

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