It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues (Luc De Clapiers)
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Author: Simone Weil
Talking about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
Author: Michel De Montaigne
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Author: Moliere
We are all so much together, but we are dying of loneliness.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Author: Seneca (First Century A.D.)
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Author: Seneca (First Century A.D.)
Man is condemned to be free.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Author: Marcel Proust
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
Author: George William Russell
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Author: Lillian Hellman
When people are least sure they are most dogmatic.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith A
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.
Author: Kin Hubbard
The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
Author: Elisabeth Marbury
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are times when lying is the most sacred of duties.
Author: Eugene Labiche
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Author: Carl Jung
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Author: Joseph Joubert
The means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
Author: Epicurus (Third Century B.C.)
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson