" Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future. "

Euripides, Phrixus Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)

" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. "

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

" I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Persuasion is often more effectual than force. "

Aesop Greek slave & fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)

" The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. "

David Brinkley US television newscaster (1920 – 2003)

" To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. "

Theodore Roosevelt 26th president of US (1858 – 1919)

" Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. "

Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 – 1899)

" Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it. "

Samuel Butler English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 – 1902)

" Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. "

Mary Schmich

" The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person — her husband. "

Lady Bird Johnson US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 – )

" In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "

Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

" There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. "

John Locke English empiricist philosopher (1632 – 1704)

" He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. "

Johnson

" I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. "

Richard Wagner

" As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. "

William James US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – 1910)

" A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun – and neither can stop the march of events. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. "

Clifton Fadiman US author, editor, & radio host (1904 – )

" It is a true saying that “One falsehood leads easily to another”. "

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

" You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. "

James A. Froude English historian (1818 – 1894)

" One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. "

Sophocles Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude. "

C. C. Colton

" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in “Foundation” US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 – 1992)

" Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. "

The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran

" Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. "

Edward Young English poet (1683 – 1765)

" If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. "

William Hazlitt English essayist (1778 – 1830)

" For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. "

Sophocles, Antigone Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. "

Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965 US politician (1920 – )

" Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea. "

Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 – 1982)

" Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. "

Jean Sibelius Finnish composer & patriot (1865 – 1957)

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