E.M. Forster (Novelist) It's a coin toss. It can go either way. One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E.M. Forster (Novelist) God-like wisdom, we are our own saviours Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E.M. Forster (Novelist) Words to live by What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E.M. Forster (Novelist) Forget about taxes The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E.M. Forster (Novelist) Cicero and Grayling would agree If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E.M. Forster (Novelist) "Fork you!", says the spoiled brat! Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E.M. Forster (Novelist) Destination Happiness? We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
M. H. Abrams (Literary Critic) Easily said when English dominates the world It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
M. H. Abrams (Literary Critic) Slow down! Look, listen and feel. If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams (Literary Critic) A round for all in the campus pub When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
Cicero (Politician) The Friendship Equation Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Cicero (Politician) Pay yourself first Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Rudyard Kipling (Journalist) Truth seeking story teller If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling (Journalist) Yet when we die (prematurely), we say our fathers lied? All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling (Journalist) Today we spell How with a "W". Can you say Sensationalize! The WOW factor! I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling (Journalist) Pass Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need.
