" Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. "

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9 English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" A reasonable probability is the only certainty. "

E.W. Howe

" Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. "

James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 “The Shrike and the Chipmunks” US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. "

George Bernard Shaw, “Ceasar and Cleopatra” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. "

Reinhold Niebuhr US Protestant theologian (1892 – 1971)

" Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. "

Bible, Psalms 133

" It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. "

Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician & philosopher (1861 – 1947)

" A witty saying proves nothing. "

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

" Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. "

Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

" If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. "

Don Marquis US humorist (1878 – 1937)

" Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. "

Joel Hawes

" When you learn how to die, you learn how to live. "

Morrie Schwartz, “Tuesdays with Morrie”

" At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. "

Emo Phillips US comedian

" You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. "

Dag Hammarskjold Swedish diplomat (1905 – 1961)

" A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. "

Kenneth A. Wells

" The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy. "

Johnson

" If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? "

Steven Wright US comedian and actor (1955 – )

" The soul of this man is in his clothes. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election. "

Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

" When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. "

Lord Falkland (1610 – 1643)

" There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. "

Peter De Vries

" If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. "

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. "

Elizabeth Harrison

" The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty. "

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

" Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. "

Richard Adams, _Watership Down_

" Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. "

Jane Addams US social worker, sociologist, & suffragist (1860 – 1935)

" When in doubt, do without. "

Hofni Samuel

" Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. "

John Viscount Morley

" Love is so much better when you are not married. "

Maria Callas

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