Eliot

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

   -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

Halsey

The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o’clock. -Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

Wall

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

 – Larry Wall

 

Confucius

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

-Confucius