" Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. "
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
" I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving – not giving and taking. "
Joyce Grenfell
" The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane "
Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II (1933 – 1967)
" The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. "
Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian novelist (1821 – 1881)
" The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. "
William Stekel
" Man…is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. "
Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)
" J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied, "
It will fluctuate.
" We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration. "
Alanis Morissette Canadian singer/songwriter (1974 – )
" If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. "
Confucius, The Confucian Analects Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
" A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. "
Robert Benchley US actor, author, & humorist (1889 – 1945)
" Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. "
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
" Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. "
Louis Pasteur French biologist & bacteriologist (1822 – 1895)
" Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. "
Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)
" Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. "
Charlie Chaplin British actor, director, & screenwriter (1889 – 1977)
" No one ever understood disaster until it came. "
Josephine Herbst
" Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. "
Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)
" To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man "
William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)
" I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen. "
Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms. German religious reformer (1483 – 1546)
" What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? …Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. "
Ivan Pavlov Russian physiologist (1849 – 1936)
" One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. "
Rita Mae Brown US author and social activist
" There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. "
Celia Thaxter
" If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be. "
Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington
" I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between. I want the freedom to try everything. "
Jim Morrison
" Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. "
Confucius, Analects, XV.24 Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
" Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. "
Jean Paul Richter German author (1763 – 1825)
" It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift. "
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "
Don Marquis US humorist (1878 – 1937)
" I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. "
Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)
" A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. "
H.H. Munro (Saki)
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