" Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. "

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

" When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. "

William Blake English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 – 1827)

" The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. "

Thomas Edison

" Frugality without creativity is deprivation. "

Amy Dacyczyn

" If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. "

Marvin Gaye

" How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? "

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

" Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube. "

Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear US journalist (1939 – 2005)

" Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. "

Laurence J. Peter US educator & writer (1919 – 1988)

" For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses. "

Dante, The Divine Comedy

" Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. "

George Eliot, Middlemarch English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. "

Joan Baez US folksinger (1941 – )

" Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? "

Neil Gaiman

" Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. "

Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail Greek slave & fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)

" People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. "

Frederick Douglas

" In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail. "

Vincent T. Lombardi

" Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! "

Constanze

" All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “Facts”. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. "

Thomas Hobbes English political philosopher (1588 – 1679)

" You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough. "

Joe E. Lewis

" Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. "

Elias Schwartz

" Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again. "

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 – 1849)

" Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. "

Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with “attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government” Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

" Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all. "

Andy Warhol US artist (1928 – 1987)

" Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. "

Quentin Crisp

" People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. "

Brendan Francis

" To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes – we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. "

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

" A big book is a big bore. "

Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)

" Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it. "

Author Unknown

" Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. "

Mother Teresa Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 – 1997)

" This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one. "

George Sanders

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