Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat. , Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni. ]
Juvenal
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Oscar Wilde
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare
The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
Albert Low
I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.
Geraldine Ferraro
I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.
Jacques Pepin
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
