" Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. "

Gerald R. Ford US Republican politician (1913 – )

" Morality is herd instinct in the individual. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. "

Johann K. Lavater

" Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

" lovers alone wear sunlight "

e.e. cummings

" Is yours an honest lament?…Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We – at least we of sincere character – always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it… Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights. "

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

" A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. "

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

" The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. "

Erich Fromm US (German-born) psychologist (1900 – 1980)

" ….it is better to succeed with success than failure. "

George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech

" History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. "

Mark Yost

" A good home must be made, not bought. "

Joyce Maynard, “Domestic Affairs”

" If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. "

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

" No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. "

A.A. Milne

" Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. "

Author Unknown

" The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. "

Vince Lombardi US football coach (1913 – 1970)

" People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. "

W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage”, 1915 English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)

" The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done. "

Francis William Bourdillon

" Man is the measure of all things. "

Protagoras, Fragment 1 Greek philosopher (485 BC – 421 BC)

" A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. "

Henry B. Adams

" The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win "

Badger Clark

" When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. "

Helen Rowland (1876 – 1950)

" The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. "

Francois Sagan

" The perfect host requires the perfect parasite. "

Adopted from Lance Fusco.

" If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. "

Samuel Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

" The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine. "

George Sand French author (1804 – 1876)

" Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance. "

Helen Lawrenson

" A snake lurks in the grass. "

Virgil, Eclogues Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

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