Pearl S. Buck

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary

Keane

"Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?"

- Keane, "Somewhere Only We Know"

Abraham Lincoln

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men"

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Epictetus

"Only the educated are free."

- Epictetus, philosopher

Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist, critic

Publilius Syrus

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Aristotle

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Billy Wilder

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

- Billy Wilder, filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter

Lord Byron

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

- Lord Byron, poet

Louisa May Alcott

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them."

- Louisa May Alcott, author

Rita Mae Brown

"Good judgement comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgement."

- Rita Mae Brown, author

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there is within me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist

Coldplay

"When you love someone, but it goes to waste.
Could it be worse?"

- Coldplay, "Fix You"

Mark Twain

"Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God."

- Mark Twain, author

Pearl S. Buck

"When men destroy their old gods, they find new ones to take their place."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary

Allan K. Chalmers

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for."

- Allan K. Chalmers

Douglas Adams

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Douglas Adams, author and dramatist

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"The true means of being misled is to believe oneself finer than the others."

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld, author

James Yorke

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B"

- James Yorke, mathematician and physicist

Blondie

"Dreaming is free"

- Blondie, "Dreaming"

Cicero

"There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"

- Cicero, ancient Roman orator, politician and author

Douglas MacArthur

"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur, American general

Germaine Greer

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

- Germaine Greer, writer, journalist

Henry David Thoreau

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, development critic

George Jean Nathan

"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."

- George Jean Nathan, critic and editor

Kate Voegele

"I'll belong where I decide."

- Kate Voegele, "Angel"

Oscar Wilde

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Martin Niemoller

"First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - I was not a Jew
Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out - I was not a Communist
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me."

- Martin Niemoller, theologian and pastor imprisoned by Nazis in 1937

Ivy Baker Priest

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

- Ivy Baker Priest, American politician

Note: This has been posted before, but I thought it appropriate for the New Year. Happy New Year!