" Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.) "

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

" Nothing fails like success. "

Gerald Nachman

" I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it. "

Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

" No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. "

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

" Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life. "

Margaret Lowenfeld

" Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality. "

Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre-match team talk

" Anger without power is folly. "

German Proverb

" My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery. "

Why on Quartz

" Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. "

Marie Curie French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 – 1934)

" Lactomangulation, n.:
Manhandling the “open here” spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the “illegal” side. "

Rich Hall, “Sniglets”

" All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. "

Charles M. Schwab

" To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. "

Bernard M. Baruch, 1940 US businessman & politician (1870 – 1965)

" I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them. "

Lauren Edwards

" Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving. "

Penn Jillette US magician & showman (1955 – )

" Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune. "

Cleobulus

" What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. "

Dave Barry US columnist & humorist (1947 – )

" After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. "

Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California US Senator, 1994-2002, actor

" What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! "

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)

" May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. "

Irish Blessing

" Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. "

Lord Acton

" America is a mistake, a giant mistake. "

Sigmund Freud Austrian psychologist (1856 – 1939)

" Men are punished by their sins, not for them. "

Elbert Hubbard US author (1856 – 1915)

" All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars. "

Francis Beaumont English dramatist (1584 – 1616)

" Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all. "

Saadi, On the Excellence of Contentment Persian poet (1184 – 1291)

" To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. "

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

" The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery. "

Mary B. Yates

" Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. "

Sarah Ban Breathnach

" A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. "

John le Carre English suspense novelist (1931 – )

" Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. "

John G. Vance

" The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. "

George Jellinek

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