" The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. "

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer) US football coach (1913 – 1970)

" Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. "

Euripides, Orestes (408 BC) Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)

" Health is worth more than learning. "

Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" [The body is] a marvelous machine…a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! "

Theodor Herzl Austrian (Hungarian-born) Zionist leader (1860 – 1904)

" The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood. "

The “Xlib Programming Manual”

" For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. "

Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1 English author, courtier, humanist, & saint (1478 – 1535)

" It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. "

Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)

" There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. "

Thomas A. Edison US inventor (1847 – 1931)

" The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. "

William Van Horne

" No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. "

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

" How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. "

Nathaniel Emmons

" Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference. "

Charles Franklin Kettering, (1876-1958)

" In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. "

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

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. "

Leonard Brandwein

" I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. "

George Washington First president of US (1732 – 1799)

" I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. "

William Shakespeare, “Much Ado about Nothing”, Act 3 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Do not speak ill of the dead. "

The Seven Sages, (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,Solon, Thales) c. 650 – c. 550 BC, From Diogenes Laertius, Lives (650 BC – 550 BC)

" Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. "

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein English novelist (1797 – 1851)

" A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. "

Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93) US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 – 1982)

" It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. "

Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)

" If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. "

John Kenneth Galbraith US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 – )

" Nobody ever died of laughter. "

Max Beerbohm English author and satirist (1872 – 1956)

" For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal "

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

" Each painting has its own way of evolving…When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself. "

William Baziotes

" Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red. "

Eugene Bullard

" Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. "

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. "

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

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