The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood., Buddha, Indian philosopher religious leader (563 BC 483 BC)
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well., Dan Rather, US television newscaster (1931 )
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy., Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950),
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender., Jim Bishop,
Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, scientist (1749 1832)
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple., Charles Lamb, English critic essayist (1775 1834)