“Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
Nadine Gordimer, quoted in Yahoo News
“The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.”
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Walter Bagehot, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.”
Henry Fielding, quoted in the Associated Press
“It is hard to tell the truth, for although there is one, it is alive and constantly changes its face.”
Franz Kafka, quoted in the San Francisco Bay Area Reporter
“In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”
Aristotle, quoted in Forbes.com
“It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part.”
Marcel Proust, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald
“Dear Future Generations: Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum.”
Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
