He who is ignorant of history is bound to repeat its mistakes.
~saying on Maturing Altruistically by

All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
~inspirational quotation by Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
~inspirational by Indira Gandhi

Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
~sayings about inspirational by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
~quotes about Sports by Mary Russell Mitford, 1823

Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though…. That’s the problem.
~inspirational quotation by Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh