Quotes

Milhouse: How could this happen? We started out like Romeo and Juliet but it ended up in tragedy!
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If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream 5.2.154

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
Which road do I take? she asked.
Where do you want to go? was his response.
I don't know, Alice answered.
Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter. 
- Lewis Carroll

Prose is architecture, not interior decorating - Hemingway

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Mark Twain comments that "...a classic is something everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read..."

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
-Plato

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a budding morrow in midnight.
-John Keats

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll
 

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
-Benjamin Franklin

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
 - Aristotle