"A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily."

“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”

“Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced”

“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”

“If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's no real difference between believing nothing matters and believing something matters.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

“Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.”

Source : Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, University of Michigan Press

“The covetous are always in want.”

“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.”

Source : Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.172, Macmillan