" I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. "

Mae West US movie actress (1892 – 1980)

" Whom did it benefit.
(Cui Bono Fuerit) "

Longinus Cassius Roman conspirator & general (? – 42 BC)

" Necessity makes even the timid brave. "

Sallust, Roman historian and politician (c. 86-c. 35 B.C.) Roman historian & politician (86 BC – 34 BC)

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

Jules Renard (1864 – 1910)

" I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. "

Ludwig van Beethoven German Romantic composer (1770 – 1827)

" I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. "

Lord Brabazon (1884 – 1964)

" A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. "

Joseph Stalin Georgian Soviet politician (1879 – 1953)

" The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. "

Churchill

" All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Life is hard. After all, it kills you. "

Katherine Hepburn

" Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy. "

Saint Francis of Assisi, “Prayer of St Francis” (attributed) Italian monk & saint (1181 – 1226)

" Good taste is the flower of good sense. "

A. Poincelot

" To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. "

David Brooks

" To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. "

Charles William Stubbs

" Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? "

Karl Kraus Austrian author and journalist (1874 – 1936)

" It is not the position, but the disposition. "

J. E. Dinger

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

" A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" He who divides and shares is left with the best share. "

Mexican Proverb

" In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. "

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

" Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. "

Czech Proverb

" For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. "

Richard Feynman US educator & physicist (1918 – 1988)

" Rap music… sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. "

Tom Robbins US novelist (1936 – )

" When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say “amen” to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, – this is happiness, this is success. "

Orison Swett Marden (1850 – 1924)

" What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American. "

Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?

" We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. "

Luciano de Crescenzo

" Dance is the hidden language of the soul. "

Martha Graham US choreographer & dancer (1893 – 1991)

" If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success. "

Francis Saint De Sales French saint & bishop of Geneva (1567 – 1622)

" Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. "

Micron

" The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children. "

Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony

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