To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. 

~ Jorge Luis Borges, writer (24 Aug 1899-1986) 

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. 

~ Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE) 

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. 

~ Edgar Guest, poet (20 Aug 1881-1959) 

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. 

~ Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971) 

Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time. 

~ Gulzar, poet, lyricist, and film director (b. 18 Aug 1934) 

The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse. 

~ Herta Müller, novelist, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 17 Aug 1953) 

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education. ... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments. 

~ Russell Baker, columnist and author (b. 14 Aug 1925) 

I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. 

~ Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist (12 Aug 1876-1958) 

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. 

~ Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (b. 7 Aug 1942) 

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. 

~ Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug 1850-1893) 

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (4 Aug 1792-1822) 

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. 

~ P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014) 

Trust is the first step to love. 

~ Munshi Premchand, novelist and poet (31 Jul 1880-1936) 

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 
~ Henry Ford, industrialist (30 Jul 1863-1947) 

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. 

~ Robert Quillen, journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

~ Aristotle Onassis

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. 

~ Marcel Duchamp, artist (28 Jul 1887-1968) 

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. 

~ Stephen King

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recordings of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. 

~ Henry David Thoreau

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. 

~ Raymond Thornton Chandler, writer (23 Jul 1888-1959)

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. 

~ William Plomer

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. 

~ Voltaire