Agatha Christie

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

– Aristotle (a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period)

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”

– Edith Sitwell (a British poet and critic)

“Never eat more than you can lift”

– Porcine star of stage and screen

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (a former president of Liberia)