Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
Yield not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.
-- Virgil
"'I have done that' says my memory, 'I cannot have done that' says my pride, and remains adamant. At last, memory yields." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"All our work, our whole life, is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
-- Felix Frankfurter, Jurist
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky. The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullaby. Rocky Mountain High in Colorado." -- John Denver
“Well my friends are gone and my hair is gray. I ache in the places where I used to play.” -- Leonard Cohen
“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”
-- Dave Mustaine
“Pol Pot… he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed, and how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether or not they wore glasses. If they’re that clever, why not take them off when they saw him coming?”
-- Ricky Gervais
“I always felt that if I had a superpower, I wouldn’t immediately run out to the store and buy a costume.” – Stan Lee
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
-- George Bernard Shaw
“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.”
-- Oliver Cromwell
"It is the confession – not the priest – who gives us absolution."
-- Oscar Wilde
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
-- Stephen Hawking
“Quotation is a serviceable substitution for wit.”
-- Oscar Wilde
"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
-- Lewis Carroll
