"True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself."

“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

“That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.”

Source : Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

“Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.”

Source : Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

“The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.”

“You are beyond frustrating," she grumbled. "Why can't you do what I ask you to do without issuing a million questions first?" "I could say the same of you." "I don't--Argh." She raised a fist at him. "So maybe I do ask a lot of questions. So what. Anyone in my position would do the same. Besides, I'm a girl and that's my job. You're a boy. You're supposed to pound your chest with your fists and grunt, then do everything in your power to please me." "Hardly. The man you just described is more likely to knock you over the head with a club and drag you away by the hair." -Annabelle and Zacharel”

“The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.”

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”