"If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next."

“A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.”

Source : Bob Phillips (2015). “Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations”, p.61, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

“I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.”

“I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.”

“Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.”

“The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.”

“To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.”

“A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman”, p.18

“For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.”

Source : "Mutha knows best" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.