" If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian. "

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

" It is the theory that decides what we can observe. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius "

Author Unknown

" O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! "

William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 3 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. "

Ani DiFranco

" We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. "

Haida Indian saying

" The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. "

Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

" Nobody picks on a strong man. "

Charles Atlas

" Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. "

Phillip Stanhope

" To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. "

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

" Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. "

Havelock Ellis English sexual psychologist (1859 – 1939)

" How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. "

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

" Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. "

Kenneth Hildebrand

" If it were not for hope, the heart would break. "

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & historian (1608 – 1661)

" All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. "

Forster

" Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. "

Will Rogers US humorist & showman (1879 – 1935)

" If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. "

Yugoslav Proverb

" I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. "

Shirley Temple US actress, dancer, & diplomat (1928 – )

" This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. "

Georges Clemenceau French politician (1841 – 1929)

" If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. "

Pierre Gallois

" Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. "

Dale Carnegie

" We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us. "

John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley US novelist (1902 – 1968)

" Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. "

Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it. "

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

" As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing. "

Boerhaave

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