- "By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is bitterest." - Confucius

- "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker (attributed)

- "I drink to make other people seem more interesting." - George Jean Nathan

- "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane" - Marcus Aurelius

- "Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." - Sydney J. Harris