" An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. "

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

" A Multitasking Timex Sinclair "

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X-Windows

" Drugs are a bet with your mind. "

Jim Morrison

" Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. "

G. K. Chesteron

" Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. "

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

" I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. "

Robert Burns Scottish national poet (1759 – 1796)

" Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself. "

Robert Southey English poet (1774 – 1843)

" For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. "

Smiles

" Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. "

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

" People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. "

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

" If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. "

Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

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

" Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. "

William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 1 scene 4 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. "

Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. "

Raymond Lindquist

" It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. "

Walter Bagehot, “Biographical Studies”, 1863 English economist & journalist (1826 – 1877)

" It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" A library is an arsenal of liberty. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" Better be quarrelling than lonesome. "

Irish Proverb

" Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth. "

Muhammad Ali US boxer (1942 – )

" One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. "

Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894 French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 – 1934)

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

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

" I have no life, just e-mail. "

Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)

" To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. "

Hippocrates Greek physician (460 BC – 377 BC)

" Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will. "

George Eliot, Romola English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes US author & physician (1809 – 1894)

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