"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body." Margaret Fuller
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." Samuel Butler
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time." Jean Cocteau
"Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing." Milton Snavely Hershey
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them." Don Marquis
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." Abraham Joshua Heschel
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give." Joseph Epstein
"Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognise... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished." Claude Levi-Strauss
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." George Bernard Shaw
"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them." Theodor Adorno
"I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy." F.W. Woolworth (1852-1919).
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." Niccolo Machiavelli
"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." Benjamin Franklin
"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition." Dwight Whitney Morrow
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." Karl Marx