" The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. "

George Bernard Shaw, “St. Joan” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. "

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing. "

Seneca, Epistles Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

" Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. "

Chinese Proverb

" We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. "

Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)

" I know all except myself. "

Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres French poet (1431 – 1463)

" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. "

Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

" God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board "

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

" A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse. "

William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, Act 3 scene 3 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" First you imitate, then you innovate. "

Miles Davis US jazz musician & trumpeter (1926 – 1991)

" A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. "

African Proverb

" I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. "

Adela Rogers St.John

" People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. "

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

" If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way. "

Gurdjieff

" What did my hands do before they held you? "

Sylvia Plath US novelist & poet (1932 – 1963)

" The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. "

Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944 French novelist (1873 – 1954)

" It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. "

Harvey Firestone

" If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian novelist (1821 – 1881)

" Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" Leisure is the mother of philosophy. "

Thomas Hobbes English political philosopher (1588 – 1679)

" Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. "

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

" The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. "

Andrew A. Rooney

" It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. "

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77 English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 – 1902)

" Jefferson still survivies. "

John Adams, last words after a lifetime competing with Thomas Jefferson US diplomat & politician (1735 – 1826)

" The mind can also be an erogenous zone. "

Raquel Welch

" The impotence of God is infinite. "

Anatole France French novelist (1844 – 1924)

" Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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