“Will your fine, far memories ever cease to lay contrasting pictures athwart the harsher features of this later world, accentuating the ugliness of the longer and tamer life?”— Ambrose Bierce, amazon.com
“What guts it takes, what obstinate determination, to stick to one coherent policy, year after year, in the face of all the pressures to 'come up with something new' every six months.”— David Ogilvy, markenlexikon.com
“You ask me what I get Out of my country place The profit, gross or net It's never seeing your face.”— Martial, amazon.com
“Let me quote a proverb from the Greek: 'I hate an unforgetful drinking mate.'”— Martial, Mark Kurlansky, amazon.com
“The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.”— Howard Thurman, amazon.com
“I felt in his soul a cold steel, I felt in his mind a deep irony against which nothing great or good, even his own destiny, was proof.”— Paul Johnson, amazon.com
“Bonaparte was a man who, when he was in his cradle, had been given by the Good Fairy gifts beyond the imagination of most men. But she had denied him things that most people, however humble, take for granted–the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, right and wrong.”— Paul Johnson, amazon.com
“The effect of his scientific budget planning was that he felt at once triumphantly wealthy and perilously poor.”— Sinclair Lewis, amazon.com
“The guilty realization hadn't yet come to me during all those years in Atlanta I was masquerading, playing a false-faced, false role, involving the hopes and lives of others in my sham. I hadn't been a conscious hypocrite, or consciously dishonesty. Nor had I won my position friends, the trust of my…”— William Seabrook, amazon.com
“I used to think, 'I supposed the gods will fulfill [the prophecies] in some distant future;' but when a man is in a hurry himself, the god will led him a hand.”— Aeschylus, amazon.com
“Running was something I found in the army, something that seemed to repay whatever energy I expended on it. I ran all over West London, pounding the tarmac beneath my feet for miles and miles, pumping the endorphins into my blood. The white noise faded.”— Anthony Loyd, amazon.com
“You have to stop trying to make other people 'measure up.' This is a standard only you can apply to yourself. It's the only one you have the right to enforce.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com
“You can abuse me, you can strike me, so long as you let me have my own way.”— J.D. Rockefeller, amazon.com
“The real purpose of organizing [unions is] 'to do as little as possible for the greatest possible pay.'”— J.D. Rockefeller, amazon.com
“Honra y provecho no caben en un saco (Honor and profit cannot fit in a single bag.)”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The best way to live is to assume you have free will but everyone else is pre-determined.”— William James, amazon.com