Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh

Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemmingway

Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full. Hazrat...

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control...

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone...

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen. Dostoyevsky

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife. Hilary J. Bader, Ferengi Rule of Aquisition #48, Star Trek: Deep Space...