" We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. "

Wernher Von Braun US (German-born) rocket engineer (1912 – 1977)

" The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. "

Marilyn Ferguson

" To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach. "

Donna Bulger

" My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. "

Henry Youngman

" Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. "

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening US poet (1874 – 1963)

" Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. "

Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)

" The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. "

John Lancaster Spalding

" Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. "

Emerson

" Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. "

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004 US actress & television talk show host (1954 – )

" We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred. "

Basil W. Maturin

" I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. "

Will Rogers US humorist & showman (1879 – 1935)

" So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies. "

Izaak Walton English biographer & fishing author (1593 – 1683)

" It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. "

Andre Gide French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 – 1951)

" Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. "

William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, Act 1 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away.”

Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me. "

A.E. Houseman

" Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. "

Nikolaus Lenus

" We don

" Any fool can make a rule,
and any fool will mind it. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. "

Soren Kierkegaard Danish philosopher (1813 – 1855)

" The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. "

Ben Stein

" Law is order, and good law is good order. "

Aristotle, Politics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. "

Anonymous

" The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat) "

Ovid, Heorides (c. 10 BC) Roman poet (43 BC – 17 AD)

" Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. "

W.C. Fields

" Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. "

Anonymous

" Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. "

Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

" The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. "

Virginia Woolf English novelist (1882 – 1941)

" To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. "

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14 British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. "

Joseph Conrad English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 – 1924)

" Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. "

Karl Marx German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 – 1883)

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