" Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny. "

John Oliver Hobbes

" To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine. "

Browning

" Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison. "

Clive Lewis

" The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. "

Muhammad Ali US boxer (1942 – )

" The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. "

Henry J. Tillman

" Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings. "

Hellen Keller

" It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. "

Heraclitus, On the Universe Greek philosopher (540 BC – 480 BC)

" Better the foot slip than the tongue. "

French Proverb

" Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" We can always take but never give. "

Jamiroquai, Virtual Insanity

" Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding. "

Lord Kelvin

" Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. "

Vida D. Scudder

" Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. "

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

" I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. "

John Cleese English actor & comedian (1939 – )

" Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. "

Lucille Ball US television actress (1911 – 1989)

" If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world. "

Emily Taft Douglas

" None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. "

Muhammad

" There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? "

Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign

" He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. "

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688 – 1744)

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

Simone Weil French social philosopher (1909 – 1943)

" Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. "

Adolf Hitler, His 3rd Public Speech After taking Power. German Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 – 1945)

" You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe. "

Daisaku Ikeda

" He drew a circle that shut me out –
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in. "

Edwin Markham

" There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. "

Cyrus H. Curtis US publisher (1850 – 1933)

" A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. "

Dorothy Parker US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 – 1967)

" Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. "

William Hale White

" Be great in act, as you have been in thought. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. "

John Locke English empiricist philosopher (1632 – 1704)

" The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. "

Hannah Arendt US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 – 1975)

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