"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
"It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe." Zachary Taylor
"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more." Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison." Georges Bataille
"I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." Earl Warren
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Loren Eiseley
"When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row." Alice Paul
"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions." Cornelia Otis Skinner
"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature." Dennis Gabor
"The chief cause of problems is solutions." Eric Sevareid
"There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers."
"Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented." Rod Steiger