Witticisms

Robert Louis Stevenson
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

Ambrose Bierce
"Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

Epictetus
"No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

Leonardo da Vinci
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

Martin Luther King Jr.
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

Blaise Pascal
"Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical.... Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just."

Voltaire
"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other."

Miguel de Cervantes
"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."

William Congreve
"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."