" I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. "

Cousin Woodman

" All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned–the biggest word of all–look. "

Robert Fulghum US author & Unitarian clergyman (1937 – )

" My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. "

Saint Augustine, Confessions Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD – 430 AD)

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" Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. "

Jane Austen, Emma English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. "

Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)

" In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. "

Robert Byrne

" If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world. "

Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

" Newspapers should have no friends. "

Joseph Pulitzer

" Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. "

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8 English dramatist (1670 – 1729)

" It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. "

Havelock Ellis English sexual psychologist (1859 – 1939)

" It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life. "

Elizabeth Henry

" If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. "

Young

" The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. "

Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) “Early One Morning”

" When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. "

Joe Namath

" Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. "

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

" If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. "

Elizabeth Bowen Irish novelist & short story author (1899 – 1973)

" Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. "

Roger Caras

" Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations. "

John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x

" The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. "

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) “Age and Death” (1865 – 1946)

" Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. "

Salvador Dali Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter (1904 – 1989)

" Humor – the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. "

Author Unknown

" To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor. "

American Greetings Card

" Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know. "

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf German Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 – 1945)

" A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. "

Austin L. Sorensen

" Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. "

James Bryant Conant US chemist, diplomat, & educator (1893 – 1978)

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