" As soon as there is life there is danger. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. "

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)

" Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown. "

Alan Watts

" Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. "

Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956 Russian Soviet politician (1894 – 1971)

" There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. "

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

" People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. "

Hermann Hesse Swiss (German-born) author (1877 – 1962)

" We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. "

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

" All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. "

Anna Jameson

" A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. "

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

" Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. "

Joseph Heller, “Catch-22″ US novelist (1923 – )

" From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor. "

Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)

" Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by “learning” we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information. "

Martin Heidegger

" He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. "

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

" I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. "

Mary Stewart

" I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success – the earliest spark in the dreaming youth – is this: dream a great dream. "

John Alan Appleman

" One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them. "

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, chapter 2 British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 – 1973)

" Nice guys finish last. "

Leo Durocher, (attributed, see notes) US baseball manager (1906 – 1991)

" Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. "

Scottish Proverb

" The worst sin – perhaps the only sin – passion can commit, is to be joyless. "

Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003 English mystery author (1893 – 1957)

" A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. "

Thomas Mann German writer (1875 – 1955)

" Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart. "

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205 English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)

" It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents–except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. "

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 – 1873)

" The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. "

Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

" [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. "

Confucius, The Confucian Analects Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. "

Dan Gable, University of Iowa wrestling coach

" Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. "

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating English essayist (1778 – 1830)

" They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. "

Sallust Roman historian & politician (86 BC – 34 BC)

" Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. "

Henry J. Kaiser US industrialist (1882 – 1967)

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