" Alcohol is a very necessary article… It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. "

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2 Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. "

R. S. Donnell

" Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. "

Woody Allen US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 – )

" There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage. "

J. W. Alexander

" To write it, it took three months; to conceive it

" The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Alas, I am dying beyond my means. "

Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. "

Max Beerbohm English author and satirist (1872 – 1956)

" That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. "

Madonna, O Magazine, January 2004 US actress & rock singer (1958 – )

" Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. "

William Penn English religious leader and colonist (1644 – 1718)

" If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? "

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Russian author & dissident in US (1918 – )

" I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. "

E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951 British novelist (1879 – 1970)

" There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory. "

Michael Levin

" Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. "

G. M. Trevelyan British historian (1876 – 1962)

" Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. "

John Adams US diplomat & politician (1735 – 1826)

" He that lives upon hope will die fasting. "

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

" Come quickly, I am tasting stars! "

Dom Perignon, at the moment of his discovery of champagne

" The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. "

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

" The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. "

Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990

" If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it. "

S. I. Hayakawa

" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

" Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least. "

Lewis Ward

" Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. "

Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)

" Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. "

Elsa Schiaparelli

" Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. "

C.S. Lewis

" Determined people working together can do anything. "

Jim Casey, Founder of UPS

" Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. "

Edgar Watson Howe US journalist (1853 – 1937)

" He that lives on hope will die fasting. "

American Proverb

" The mathematics is not there till we put it there. "

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science English astronomer (1882 – 1944)

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