" If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, “This is Spring.” "

Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl

" I know this–a man got to do what he got to do. "

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) US novelist (1902 – 1968)

" I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size. "

J. R .R. Tolkien

" When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. "

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

" Less is more. "

Mies van der Rohe, Referring to Modern Architecture

" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892 British mystery author & physician (1859 – 1930)

" Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? "

Natalie Clifford Barney

" We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. "

Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921 French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 – 1934)

" Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. "

Rudyard Kipling British (Indian-born) author (1865 – 1936)

" All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. "

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva US science fiction novelist (1920 – 1986)

" Education is not received. It is achieved. "

Author Unknown

" Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. "

H. H. Williams

" That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers. "

Charles Chincholles

" Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. "

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

" Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. "

Dianne Hales

" Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. "

Hasidic Saying

" The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. "

Thomas Tusser, 1524

" A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. "

Irish Proverb

" The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. "

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 US author & journalist (1899 – 1961)

" Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. "

Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 – 1961)

" Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they

" Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. "

Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

" The absence of love is the most abject pain. "

Herr Lipp

" A good rest is half the work. "

Yugoslav Proverb

" A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality. "

Scratch Garrison

" We do not remember days, we remember moments. "

Cesare Pavese Italian author, novelist, & translator (1908 – 1950)

" Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. "

Gordon R. Dickson

" It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. "

Horace, Epistles Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)

" The multitude of books is making us ignorant. "

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

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