Attitudes, Oscar Wilde

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

- Oscar Wilde

Drink, Kaley Cuoco as Penny from The Big Bang Theory


Sheldon: I'll have a Diet Coke.
Penny: OK, will you please order a cocktail? I need to practice mixing drinks.

- Kaley Cuoco as Penny from The Big Bang Theory, The Grasshopper Experiment [1.08]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory

Wisdom, The Book of Proverbs

Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.

- The Bible, The Book of Proverbs 16:16

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wisdom

War, General Douglas MacArthur


They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

- General Douglas MacArthur

야만인 같은 그들은, 상처입고 울부짖는 늑대들처럼 처절하게 죽어갔다. 그들은 천박하고 더럽고 악취를 풍겼다. 그래도 난 그들을 사랑했다.

- 더글라스 맥아더


Love, Vincent van Gogh

The best way to know God is to love many things.

- Vincent van Gogh

신을 아는 최상의 방법은 많은 걸 사랑하는 것이다.

- 네덜란드 화가 빈센트 반 고흐(Vincent van Gogh, 1853~1890)

Money, John Adams

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (25 August 1787)


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money

History, Isaac Asimov

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

~ Isaac Asimov ~

Science, Steven Weinberg


The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

- Steven Weinberg

우주를 이해하고자 하는 노력은 인생을 웃음 거리보다 좀 더 나은 수준으로 높여 주는 몇 안 되는 일 중 하나이며, 이러한 노력은 인간의 삶에 약간은 비극적인 우아함을 안겨줍니다.

- 스티븐 와인버그

Discourse, St. Francis de Sales


@ A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

- St. Francis de Sales, Letter upon Eloquence