I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose. -- Cervantes Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. -- Dante I came, I saw, I conquered. -- Julius Caesar Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -- Shakespeare All that glitters is not gold. -- Proverb To be, or not to be: that is the question. -- Shakespeare The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for change. -- von Goethe For they can conquer who believe they can. -- Emerson I dare do all that I may become a man; Who dares do more is none. -- Shakespeare Death is, to a certain extent, an impossibility which suddenly becomes a reality. -- von Goethe I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds. -- Baghavadgita, Oppenheimer Brevity is the soul of wit. -- Shakespeare A smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. -- Dickens I think, therefore I am. -- Descartes I think I think, therefore I think I am. -- Proverb Man is his own worst enemy. -- Cicero Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink. -- Coleridge To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. -- Campbell Nothing is terrible except fear itself. -- Bacon Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. -- John Webster No great genius is without an admixture of madness. -- Aristotle Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -- Shakespeare When one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. -- Cervantes The worst is not So long as we can say, "This is the worst." -- Shakespeare Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. -- Selden Come what may; Time and the hour run through the roughest day. -- Shakespeare All men see the same objects, but all men do not equally understand them. -- Traherne Defer not till tomorrow to be wise: Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. -- Congreve Never do today what you can do as well tomorrow; because something may occur to make you regret your premature action. -- Aaron Burr A wise man in time of peace prepares for war. -- Horace Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality. -- von Goethe What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. -- Shakespeare Satire should, like a polished razor keen, wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Silence gives consent. -- Goldsmith When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. -- Denham Live every day as if thy last. -- Marcus Aurelius Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. -- Congreve All is fair in love and war. -- Smedley Man has his will -- but woman has her way. -- Oliver W. Holmes Accuse not Nature; she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. -- Milton You must look into people as well as at them. -- Lord Chesterfield All things come to him who will but wait. -- Longfellow They never fail who die In a great cause. -- Byron Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield Carry on every enterprise as if all depended on the success of it. -- Richelieu Our todays and yesterdays are the blocks with which we builld. -- Longfellow Forbidden wares sell twice as dear. -- Denham War should be long in preparing in order that you may conquer the more quickly. -- Publilius Syrus Let men say what e'er they will. Woman, woman rules them still. -- Bickerstaff A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul, the "purgatory" of the purse, and the "paradise" of the eyes. -- Fontenelle A Wall Cannot Stop The Wind . . . The Wind Stops For Nothing -- Lawrence I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear in the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear