Jean de La Fontaine
View AuthorMisfortune is the closest bond of hearts.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorThe future is something that everyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do or who they are.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorNo man knows how bad he is until he has tried to be good. You can only know the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by letting it carry you.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorWe have prepared men to think of the future as a promised land reached by heroes, not as something anyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorIf the rebels could succeed, they would discover that they had destroyed themselves.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorEverything that is not eternal is eternally out of fashion.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorExperience is a fierce teacher, but it's clear that it makes you learn.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
View AuthorNo fame and rest do not go together.
Abraham Lincoln
View AuthorIn the end, what matters is not the years of life, but the life in the years.
Abraham Lincoln
View AuthorI don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more interested in knowing who his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
View AuthorAlmost all of us can endure adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
View AuthorMeasuring words is not necessarily sweetening their expression, but rather anticipating and accepting the consequences of them.