Oliver Goldsmith, on imitation
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
Oliver Goldsmith, on imitation
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”
Samuel Johnson, on writers (1755)
“Though not to write, when a man can write so well, is an offence sufficiently heinous …”
Jeff Kinney, on choices
“Because it’s our choices that makes us who we are.”
Margaret Mead, on being unique
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Hillary Clinton, on education
Tom Stoppard, from Jumpers
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.”
Blaise Pascal, from the Pensees
“All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.”
Charles M. Schulz, on our destiny
Henry David Thoreau, on wealth
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Richard Hartshorne, on maps (1939)
“So important, indeed, is the use of maps in geographic work, that, without wishing to propose any new law, it seems fair to suggest to the geographer a ready rule of thumb to test the geographic quality of any study he is making: if his problem cannot be studied fundamentally by maps—usually by a comparison of several maps—then it is questionable whether or not it is within the field of geography.”