" There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. "

Novalis German lyric poet (1772 – 1801)

" When solving a “panic” you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system. "

Peter van der Linden

" Hate pollutes the mind. "

Author Unknown

" There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. "

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

" I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport. "

Bill Watterson US cartoonist (1958 – )

" When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,
The man who is sorry over the fact will win. "

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

" It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. "

Evelyn Waugh English novelist & satirist (1903 – 1966)

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. "

Gore Vidal US author & dramatist (1925 – )

" In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy. "

John C. Sawhill

" The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "

Walter Bagehot English economist & journalist (1826 – 1877)

" Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens. "

Michel de Montaigne French essayist (1533 – 1592)

" Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. "

Albert Schweitzer French philosopher & physician (1875 – 1965)

" It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. "

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

" A small rock holds back a great wave. "

Homer, The Odyssey Greek epic poet (800 BC – 700 BC)

" Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. "

Hippocrates, Precepts Greek physician (460 BC – 377 BC)

" Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. "

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

" I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "

General G. C. Patton

" No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear. "

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. "

Edmund Burke Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

" O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. "

John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817 English lyric poet (1795 – 1821)

" It well becomes a young man to be modest. "

Titus Maccius Plautus Roman comic dramatist (254 BC – 184 BC)

" Brilliance is born of desperation. "

Jayanth Komarneni

" Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human. "

William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript310_full.html

" Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. "

Henrik Ibsen, “The Master builder”, 1892, act 3 Norwegian dramatist (1828 – 1906)

" There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. "

Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

" We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. "

Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788 – 1860)

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