Quotaria

Those who would give up essential liberty to
purchase a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered
America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith

How much easier it is to be
critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one
way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after
happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no
reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings,
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
- Shelley

"When I meet a man I ask myself,
'Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?'"
- Rita Rudner

OZYMANDIAS - Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.