" The Pope! How many divisions has _he_ got ? "

Joseph Stalin, Winston Chuirchill, The Second World War, vol 1 Georgian Soviet politician (1879 – 1953)

" A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. "

Benjamin H. Brewster US lawyer (1816 – 1888)

" Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. "

David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003 Writer at snopes.com

" Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. "

John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)

" The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. "

E.M. Cioran

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD – 430 AD)

" Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. "

W. C. Fields US actor (1880 – 1946)

" You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. "

Dale Carnegie

" The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. "

Frank Lloyd Wright US architect (1869 – 1959)

" Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. "

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)

" No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. "

Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States

" My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss. "

Sir Edward Dyer

" Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared. "

Isaac Newton English mathematician & physicist (1642 – 1727)

" Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song. "

Luther

" Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. "

Mae West US movie actress (1892 – 1980)

" Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. "

James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880 US general & politician (1831 – 1881)

" The world is my lobster. "

Henry J. Tillman

" The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. "

Martin Mull US comedian and actor (1943 – )

" The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. "

Vincent Lombardi

" It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. "

Lord Acton

" Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this – you are the only one responsible for your own actions. "

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

" We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. "

Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Fortune favors the brave. "

Virgil, Aeneid Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

" It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others "

Michel de Montaigne French essayist (1533 – 1592)

" Their plans were improved with the best advice. "

J. R. R.Tolkien, The Hobbit

" The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. "

Edith Sitwell English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 – 1964)

" An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. "

Sir Henry Wotton

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