Dead Poets Society Short Quotes & Sayings

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived. — Confucius

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. — Ernest Hemingway,

Remember life insurance is intended as income replacement to help dependents and or/spouse pay for things that your income would have covered. When you get to the point that you're dependents (Your kids mostly) aren't dependent on your income, you could reduce the amount of life insurance you are carrying. — Michelle Singletary

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. — John Milton

You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way. — Eli Roth

The servants used to say, 'he read himself silly, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives. — Elizur Wright

The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which precedes the external has a twofold characteristic: the participation of the subconscious in the inventing subject; and that encounter with an external power which demands and obtains complete subjugation, so that the way to the solution is experienced as the fitting of one's own imagination to this power. — Friedrich Dessauer