" Since when was genius found respectable? "

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet (1806 – 1861)

" Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things. "

Virgil Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

" A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. "

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

" One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. "

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. "

Nancy Mitford

" You have to believe that the universe will provide. "

Steve Crosby

" No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. "

C. C. Colton

" I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! "

Louise Bogan

" Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. "

John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323

" The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. "

Kahlil Gibran Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

" Drive thy business or it will drive thee. "

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

" …a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. "

G.H. Hardy

" I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. "

W.C. Fields

" What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth. "

John Keats English lyric poet (1795 – 1821)

" Beware the fury of a patient man. "

John Dryden English dramatist & poet (1631 – 1700)

" Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. "

Joe Gores

" My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. — (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.) "

John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965] US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon. "

Cosino DeGregrio

" Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force… If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. "

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

" Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. "

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

" Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. "

Robert Orben

" Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. "

Robin Williams US actor & comedian (1951 – )

" I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street. "

Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931) English novelist (1882 – 1941)

" The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. "

Henry Kissinger US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 – )

" Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Find out who you are and do it on purpose. "

Dolly Parton

" The eleventh commandment — Thou shalt not be found out — is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days. "

Berta Buxton

" Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. "

David Ben-Gurion

" When nothing is sure, everything is possible. "

Margaret Drabble

" Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

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