| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Albert Einstein | Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. |
| Bill Cosby | I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. |
| Tobias Smollett | Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. |
| Don Herold | There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | A room without books is like a body without a soul. |
| Jane Austen | Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. |
| Tom Stoppard | Good things, when short, are twice as good. |
| W.S. Gilbert | I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. |
| Michel De Montaigne | There is scarcely any less trouble running a family than in governing an entire state. |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | In youth we learn; in age we understand. |
| Anne Frank | Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. |
| James A. Garfield | Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. |
| George Eliot | Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no questions. |
| Jaques Delille | Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. |
| John Paul II | Treasure your families-the future of humanity passes by way of the family. |
| Plutarch | It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. |
| Chinese Proverb | One generation plants the tree; another gets the shade. |
| Johannes Sebastian Bach | I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. |
| Hector Berlioz | Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. |
| Giuseppe Verdi | I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. |
| Voltaire | Common sense is not so common. |
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