I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers., Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist poet in US (1883 1931)
Publish and be damned!, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his,
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits., Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978, US science fiction author (1907 1988)
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind., Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, lexicographer (1709 1784)
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it., Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 1865)
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