" Find peace in where and what you are. "

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

" Judgment is forced upon us by experience. "

Johnson

" Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. "

Antoinette Brown Blackwell US abolitionist, preacher, & suffragist (1825 – 1921)

" Whenever you fall, pick up something "

Oswald Theodore Avery

" Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. "

Sir John Powell

" A statesman is a successful politician who is dead. "

Thomas B. Reed

" The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. "

Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03

" Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. "

P. G. Wodehouse British humorist & novelist in US (1881 – 1975)

" If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. "

Larry Leissner

" Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" The world isn

" Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) "

Juvenal, Satires Roman poet & satirist (55 AD – 127 AD)

" There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. "

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. "

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. "

Arthur Rubinstein US (Polish-born) composer & pianist (1886 – 1982)

" While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. "

Henry C. Link

" Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. "

Tyron Edwards

" The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. "

Marcus Terentius Varro, On Agriculture Roman scholar (116 BC – 27 BC)

" Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought—particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. "

Woody Allen US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 – )

" The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. "

Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas

" Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry… If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry – an aberration, which is happily almost impossible – it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. "

Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)

" We should manage our fortunes as we do our health – enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

" Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. "

Author Unknown

" For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. "

Bob Wells

" Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. "

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

" There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don

" A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. "

Lao Tze

" Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. "

Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail.ca US electrical engineer & inventor (1876 – 1958)

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