When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author (1850 - 1894) Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Tennyson The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871 - 1922) Men are jerks. Women are psychotic. Kilgore Trout, Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut. Page 19.
pseud. of Philip Jose Farmer I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence. Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity. Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
US Secretary of Defense (1932 - ) Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. Gen. Peyton C. March | 
