O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

William Shakespeare · As You Like It (1599–1600), I, iii

We are in God’s hand.

William Shakespeare · King Henry V (1598–1599), III, vi

Truth hath a quiet breast.

William Shakespeare · King Richard II (1595), I, iii

Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), V, i This thing of darkness I

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.

James McNeill Whistler · The source reads: “[In answer to the question 'For two days' labour, you ask two hundred guineas?'] No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.”

Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt · In his autobiography Roosevelt credits the line to Squire Bill Widener of Widener's Valley, Virginia; it is usually quoted as "with what you have".

“O, how full of briers is this working-day world!”

“We are in God’s hand.”

“Truth hath a quiet breast.”

“Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.”

“Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.”

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