Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger. 

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller. 

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer. 

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. William Shakespeare. 

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance. Beethoven's Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance; whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed. Andre Previn. 

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence. Benjamin Franklin. 

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. Joseph Addison. 
