Alexander Pope – Essay on Man, Epistle 2

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien

As to be hated needs but to be seen;

Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,

We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

The Third Man (1949) – Movie Quote

Harry Lime: In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

William Wordsworth – Intimations of Immortality

“Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie thy soul’s immensity...”

Lee Lacocca


"I hire people brighter than me and get out of their way."

Steve Jobs

"It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."

Anonymous


"Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become."

William Shakespeare - Hamlet


"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."