Monthly Archives: September 2013

Asimov, Isaac (1920 – 1992), US science fiction novelist & scholar Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; … Continue reading →

Aristotle (384BC – 322BC), Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist Well begun is half done. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by … Continue reading →

Allen, Woody (1935 – ), US movie actor, comedian, & director Eighty per cent of success is showing up. You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to … Continue reading →

Alighieri, Dante (1265 – 1321), Italian national epic poet The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. He listens well who takes notes. A great flame follows a little … Continue reading →

Aesop (c620–c560BC), Greek slave & fable author The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, … Continue reading →

Aeschylus (525 – 456BC), Greek poet and dramatist Death is better, a milder fate, than tyranny. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. It is in the character of very few men to honour without … Continue reading →

Adams, John (1735 – 1826), US diplomat & politician You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit … Continue reading →

Bacon, Francis (1561 – 1626), English author, courtier, & philosopher Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. There is no excellent … Continue reading →

Adams, Douglas (1952 – 2001), English humorist & science fiction novelist You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. (Hitchhiker’s … Continue reading →