" History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy. "

George W. Bush 43rd President of US (1946 – )

" The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth. "

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

" Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. "

T.S. Eliot

" What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. "

Anna Jameson

" Love is the very essence of life. "

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

" Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. "

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

" Even pleasure itself is a toil. "

Manilius Roman politician (~1 BC)

" No wise man ever wished to be younger. "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities – not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. "

Jimmy Carter, in his farewell address US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924 – )

" An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "

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

" Take what you can use and let the rest go by. "

Ken Kesey US novelist (1935 – )

" We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. "

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

" Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. "

Albert Camus French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)

" Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. "

Marcelene Cox

" Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. "

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

" On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. "

Woody Allen, Without Feathers US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 – )

" Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. "

Robert Frost US poet (1874 – 1963)

" The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea. "

William Shakespeare, “King Henry VI Part II”, Act 4 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" As we grow old

" Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. "

Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.

" Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. "

Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. "

Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway US journalist (1939 – 2005)

" Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat "

John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987 US administrator (1942 – )

" Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. "

Carl Zwanzig

" All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. "

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

" The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. "

Claude Bernard French physiologist (1813 – 1878)

" Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. "

Jules Renard (1864 – 1910)

" The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself. "

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

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