" Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. "
African Proverb
" However long the night, the dawn will break. "
African Proverb
" All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. "
H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)
" Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely… "
Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
" If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. "
Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)
" Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. "
Albert Einstein, 1929 US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
" No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. "
Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
" A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. "
Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
" If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. "
Anatole France French novelist (1844 – 1924)
" If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. "
Robert Southey English poet (1774 – 1843)
" Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. "
E.L. Doctorow
" What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway? "
David Merritt, a.k.a. THE RED SHARK
" By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks! "
William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”, Act 4 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)
" You never find yourself until you face the truth. "
Pearl Bailey US singer (1918 – 1990)
" One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. "
Benjamin Disreali
" It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right – especially when one is right. "
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra German philosopher (1844 – 1900)
" It is most unwise for people in love to marry. "
George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
" To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. "
Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)
" Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated. "
Robert Collier
" Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause. "
William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)
" Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. "
John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)
" I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise. "
Noel Coward English actor, dramatist, & songwriter (1899 – 1973)
" Who to himself is law, no law doth need. "
Arthur Chapman
" Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. "
Carl Schurz US (German-born) general & politician (1829 – 1906)
" All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. "
Galileo Galilei Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 – 1642)
" Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done. "
Josh Billings US Humorist (1818 – 1885)
" Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? "
Spike Milligan, from “The Goon Show”
" The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. "
Niels Bohr Danish physicist (1885 – 1962)
" Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. "
Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)
" Beware of the fury of the patient man. "
John Dryden English dramatist & poet (1631 – 1700)
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