" I love acting. It is so much more real than life. "

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

" I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. "

Dorothy Parker US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 – 1967)

" When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. "

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

" I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

Tom Stoppard British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )

" If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. "

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

" Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. "

Frederick Douglas

" A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. "

Max Weinreich

" Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. "

John Maynard Keynes English economist (1883 – 1946)

" Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. "

Muhammad Ali US boxer (1942 – )

" Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. "

Bette-Jane Raphael

" Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship. "

Chiam Potok, The Chosen

" True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. "

Victor Cousin French philosopher (1792 – 1867)

" The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation

" The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. "

Salvador Dali, from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14 Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter (1904 – 1989)

" It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others. "

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

" Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. "

Robert Collier

" People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course–with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here–to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. "

Henry James, “The Ambassadors”, Book Fifth, Chapter 2 British (US -born) author (1843 – 1916)

" Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You "

Book title by Erskine & Moran – 1981

" It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. "

Jerome K. Jerome British humor writer (1859 – 1927)

" A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. "

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 – 1527)

" Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. "

David Letterman US comedian & television host (1947 – )

" People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. "

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 – 1946)

" The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. "

John Maynard Keynes English economist (1883 – 1946)

" Success has made failures of many men. "

Cindy Adams

" Nothing happens unless first a dream. "

Carl Sandburg US biographer & poet (1878 – 1967)

" The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. "

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647

" The character of a man is known from his conversations. "

Menander Greek comic dramatist (342 BC – 292 BC)

" Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few. "

Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II

" I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter. "

Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657) French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)

" Everyone is having a harder time than it appears. "

Charles Grodin

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