" There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. "

Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician & philosopher (1861 – 1947)

" We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. "

Charles Baudelaire French poet (1821 – 1867)

" If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. "

Dale Carnegie

" Our envy of others devours us most of all. "

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russian author & dissident in US (1918 – )

" Conform and be dull. "

James Frank Dobie

" God help those who do not help themselves. "

Wilson Mizner US screenwriter (1876 – 1933)

" The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. "

Robert Benchley US actor, author, & humorist (1889 – 1945)

" Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. "

Haitian Proverb

" Familiarity breed contempt. "

Aesop, The Fox and the Lion Greek slave & fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)

" The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it “the first law of personal growth.” "

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

" I am the only guinea pig I have. "

R. Buckminster Fuller US architect & engineer (1895 – 1983)

" It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. "

Douglas Adams English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)

" Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself. "

Michel de Montaigne French essayist (1533 – 1592)

" Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save. "

John Gay English dramatist, librettist, & poet (1685 – 1732)

" Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. "

Samuel Goldwyn US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 – 1974)

" Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. "

Aristotle, Physics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Little by little, one travels far. "

J. R. R. Tolkien British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 – 1973)

" Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. "

Democritus Greek philosopher (460 BC – 370 BC)

" Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. "

Thomas H. Huxley English biologist (1825 – 1895)

" Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. "

John Milton English poet (1608 – 1674)

" Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. "

Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

" Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. "

Hebrews 11:1, The Bible (King James Version)

" Guilt is a rope that wears thin. "

Ayn Rand US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 – 1982)

" Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. "

Thomas Paine US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)

" Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. "

W. Edwards Deming US business advisor & author (1900 – 1993)

" Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area – crime, education, housing, race relations – the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. "

Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993 (1930 – )

" Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. "

Laurence Peter

" Hit hard, hit fast, hit often. "

William “Bull” Halsey, Admiral, USN

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