" How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us! "

Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

" Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas. "

Marchioness Townsend

" Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest. "

Jimmy Swaggart

" An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. "

Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

" A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. "

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & historian (1608 – 1661)

" Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. "

M. C. Richards

" The problem with political jokes is they get elected. "

Henry Cate VII

" Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. "

Brendan Gill

" The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven "

John Milton, Dr. Faustus English poet (1608 – 1674)

" I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

Orson Welles, 1966 US actor & director (1915 – 1985)

" Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig. "

Barbara Melser Lieberman

" Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 US author & dramatist (1925 – )

" In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. "

Hubert H. Humphrey US politician (1911 – 1978)

" I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. "

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) “Age and Death” (1865 – 1946)

" To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise. "

Mitchell Caplan, CEO, E*Trade Group Inc.

" Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. "

Arnold Edinborough

" Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. "

Auguste Rodin

" Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. "

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ German mystic & religious author (1380 – 1471)

" Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. "

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825 French gourmet & lawyer (1755 – 1826)

" Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. "

Theodore Rubin

" No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. "

Tom Thompson

" The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. "

Steven Weinberg US physicist (1933 – )

" Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings. "

Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927 US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)

" Music–the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend. "

Ludwig van Beethoven German Romantic composer (1770 – 1827)

" No man is wise enough by himself. "

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

" What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, “when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?” —- “The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls,” Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, “was where in the world did all that water come from?” "

Author Unknown

" A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions. "

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

" Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. "

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

" We have a lot of reasons but only one real one. "

Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)

" Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it. "

Robert Englund

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