Compunctious Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word. — Ali MacGraw

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions. — Bernard Lonergan

I hear they make greeting cards now
to thank your therapist ... for NOTHING — Casey Renee Kiser

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle. — Peter Rachleff

O month when they who love must love and wed. — Helen Hunt Jackson

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way. — Nick Cave