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If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.

William Blackstone (1723-1780)

William Blackstone

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

William Osler (1849-1919)

William Osler

My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statute, at a glance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jag kommer bärande på en olivkvist i ena handen och en frihetskämpes pistol i den andra. Låt inte olivkvisten falla från min hand.

"I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. "

November 13, 1974 Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, New York

Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)

Yasser Arafat

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956)

A. A. Milne

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Alfred North Whitehead

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875)

Sir Arthur Helps

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee (1940-1973)

Bruce Lee

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Charlie Chaplin

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

D.H. Lawrence

Sexual harassment is about sex, not about harassment. It's become about power, and that's not the same thing. . . . We've got people trying to win the lottery on other people. It's easy, because it's just he said-she said.

David Duchovny (1960-1960)

David Duchovny

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)

Edward R. Murrow

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Frederick W. Robertson (1816-)

Frederick W. Robertson

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Hugo Black (1886-1971)

Hugo Black

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