“HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“The things we love destroy us every time”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ”

― Neil Gaiman, Where do you get your ideas?

“But I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively — because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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