George Johnson (unknown)

I’m starting to understand how little purchase the truth actually affords us in this world.

It has been a severe lesson for Andy, but I do not think he will do it again.

Laura Crossley - Martha Sowerby

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Mary Murphy - Kathie Beeker

Gloria Stuart — Barbara Kelton

The lesson of Apollo demonstrates that no matter how big the goal, if you apply yourself diligently to the work, even the most difficult job can be be accomplished flawlessly.

Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

Elia L. Aboumrad

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

From the time they turned one they were tossed from the balconies of the kitchens, first with life preserves so they would lose their fear of the water, and then without life preservers so they would lose their respect for death.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.