" I think; therefore I am. "

Rene Descartes French mathematician & philosopher (1596 – 1650)

" I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. "

Woody Allen US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 – )

" My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. "

Cary Grant US movie actor (1904 – 1986)

" True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. "

Jim Bishop

" Success covers a multitude of blunders. "

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

" I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. "

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. "

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" Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. "

Chuang-tzu (369 BC – 286 BC)

" Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. "

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

" Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. "

Mae West, Klondike Annie (1936 film) US movie actress (1892 – 1980)

" Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. "

Jean de La Fontaine French poet (1621 – 1695)

" I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. "

Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)

" Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. "

Claud Cockburn (1904 – 1981)

" A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. "

Dan Rather US television newscaster (1931 – )

" If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "

William James US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – 1910)

" Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. "

Daphne du Maurier British novelist (1907 – 1989)

" Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920) English author, historian, & utopian (1866 – 1946)

" One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. "

Franklin P. Jones

" When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. "

Brendan Behan Irish author & dramatist (1923 – 1964)

" Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. "

Josephine Tey

" Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "

Dr. Karl Bowman

" Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. "

William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Act 1 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong. "

Geoff Arbuthnot

" Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires. "

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

" Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. "

Anonymous

" It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together. "

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

" Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. "

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

" Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. "

Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

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