" From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. "

Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972)

" Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "

George Orwell, 1946 English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

" Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. "

Tim Bedore

" Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. "

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843 Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

" The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. "

Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives Canadian politician (1919 – 2000)

" Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone. "

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2 Italian movie director (1920 – 1993)

" The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. "

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

" He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. "

Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own. "

Smart

" All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. "

Anatole France French novelist (1844 – 1924)

" Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. "

Henrik Ibsen Norwegian dramatist (1828 – 1906)

" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. "

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

" Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them "

Author Unknown

" Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. "

Doug Larson

" I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say. "

Enrique Tessieri

" [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. "

Lord Byron English poet & satirist (1788 – 1824)

" Truth springs from argument amongst friends. "

David Hume Scottish historian & philosopher (1711 – 1776)

" I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week…to remind me how fragile life is. "

Andy Warhol US artist (1928 – 1987)

" Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. "

Norman Mailer, “Esquire”, June 1960 US journalist & novelist (1923 – )

" We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. "

Charles Kingsley English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)

" Some of the best advice I ever received was “Man, that was terrible”. "

Tom Hanks

" We learn from history that we do not learn from history. "

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

" Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. "

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938) (1903 – 1974)

" Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. "

Lady Bird Johnson US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 – )

" Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. "

Diane Ackerman

" Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. "

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

" [The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. "

Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) US Republican politician (1947 – )

" You teach best what you most need to learn. "

Richard Bach

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