“'Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“By the time you read this, you’ll be older than you remember.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough . . . pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“If God be for us, who can be against us?”

― Saint Augustine, Confessions

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms... or the memory of a brother’s smile?”

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

“They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sleeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of hunger make, too.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now, is first established through matter.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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