" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! "

Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow – it empties today of strength. "

Corrie ten Boom

" The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

" Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. "

Dr. Joyce Brothers US psychologist & television personality (1928 – )

" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. "

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "

George Eliot, Middlemarch English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace. "

Fridjof Nansen

" The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. "

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

" He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. "

Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)

" It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. "

Helen Rowland (1876 – 1950)

" It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. "

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

" I am not young enough to know everything. "

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

" Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. "

Wilson Mizner US screenwriter (1876 – 1933)

" Liberal: a power worshipper without power. "

George Orwell English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

" Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained. "

Shirley MacLaine US movie actress (1934 – )

" SCCS is the source-code motel — your code checks in but it never checks out. "

Ken Thompson

" Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you. "

Virgil Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

" Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. "

George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3 English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

" 2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort. "

Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2

" Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,the spines of others are often stiffened. "

Billy Graham

" Thought is the fountain of speech. "

Chrysippus Greek Stoic philosopher (280 BC – 207 BC)

" And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. "

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ German mystic & religious author (1380 – 1471)

" The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you

" Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "

Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience "

quoted by Freud in “Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience?”

" Where there is love there is life. "

Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

" Do not speak ill of the dead. "

The Seven Sages, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (650 BC – 550 BC)

" In the fight between you and the world, back the world. "

Frank Zappa US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 – 1993)

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