" Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. "

Henri Bergson French author, mystic, & philosopher (1859 – 1941)

" Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. "

Bob Wells

" Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. "

Johann Kaspar Lavater

" Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be. "

Clementine Paddleford

" Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

Italian Proverb

" The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. "

Plutarch Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD – 120 AD)

" They can conquer who believe they can. "

Virgil Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

" Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. "

Shakespeare

" I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?
Death thought about it.
Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice. "

Terry Pratchet, Sourcery

" I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. "

Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician & philosopher (1861 – 1947)

" We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours. "

Golda Meir, to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks. Israeli (Russian-born) politician (1898 – 1978)

" It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. "

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

" I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. "

Samuel Butler English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 – 1902)

" Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. "

Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859 US educator (1796 – 1859)

" A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. "

Hesiod Greek didactic poet (~800 BC)

" Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. "

H. H. Williams

" Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family. "

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10-06-05 Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com

" All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own “true” nature might never be known. "

David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel

" We shape our buildings and they shape us. "

Winston Churchill

" Get pleasure out of life…as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure. "

Sol Hurok

" Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte French general & politician (1769 – 1821)

" A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. "

Anatole France French novelist (1844 – 1924)

" The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. "

Linus Pauling

" I am always afraid of your “something shall be done.” "

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

" I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. "

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

" Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. "

Malcom Forbes

" I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. "

Maya Angelou US author & poet (1928 – )

" As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

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