“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
-Henry Thoreau
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
-Ernest Gaines
“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.”
-Herodotus
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
-David Brinkley
“They talk to me about how 2 women are killed every week, in England, by their partners. 1 man is killed; but, they don’t account for the 3, who commit suicide, each week. I know those men; and, I know why they kill themselves.”
-Erin Pizzey
“The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.”
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
-Thomas Mann
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow,”
-Charles Dickens
“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Conservative? Liberal? These are but twin halves of the national lobotomy. I am neither, I’m just me. I figure it’s enough. Anything more would be multiple-personality disorder.”
-Fred Reed
“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
-James Crook
