Wise Splinter Quotes

#1. We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

Paul LePage

#3. [On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

Fanny Kemble

#4. When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.

John Cusack

#5. The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Jeff Bezos

#6. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Horatio Nelson

#8. I'm not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn't it a splendid thing that there are mornings?

L.M. Montgomery

#9. For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Mike Fitzpatrick