" Evil draws men together. "

Aristotle, Rhetoric Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. "

Charles Anderson Dana

" When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. "

William Wrigley Jr. US chewing gum industrialist (1861 – 1932)

" When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults. "

Confucious

" Even paranoids have real enemies. "

Delmore Schwartz

" What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem? "

William Simpson, A.C.L.U.

" Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. "

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes US cartoonist (1958 – )

" Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. "

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words …. and his silences. "

Simon MacDonald

" Every man is the architect of his own fortune. "

Appius Claudius

" I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy. US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers? "

Calvin Trillin US columnist (1935 – )

" The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. "

James Madison, Federalist 10 4th president of US (1751 – 1836)

" Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. "

Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773)

" When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, “What choice do I have?” "

Pat Schroeder

" All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. "

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938) (1903 – 1974)

" A finished person is a boring person. "

Anna Quindlen

" I bet the human brain is a kludge. "

Marvin Minsky

" I gotta be me. "

Sammy Davis Jr.

" In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. "

Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914 (1848 – 1925)

" The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. "

Jim Samuels

" If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. "

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61 English novelist (1816 – 1855)

" The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. "

Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

" Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. "

Author Unknown

" When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. "

George Washington Carver

" He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. "

Confucius, The Confucian Analects Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" Their silence is sufficient praise. "

Terence Roman comic dramatist (185 BC – 159 BC)

" Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones. "

The Belzer Rabbi

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