" Good place to put things–cellars. "

Doctor Who

" Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. "

W. L. George

" The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. "

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

" Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. "

Samuel Johnson, Life of Boerhaave English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

" Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. "

Peter Ustinov English actor & author (1921 – 2004)

" I bet the human brain is a kludge. "

Marvin Minsky

" Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. "

Edward De Bono

" The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. "

Mata Hari Dutch dancer & spy in France (1876 – 1917)

" It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment. "

Saint Bernard French abbot & saint (1090 – 1153)

" For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. "

Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)

" If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again? "

Author Unknown

" Imagine there

" Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. "

W. J. Cameron

" When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the “division” of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. "

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

" Partying is such sweet sorrow. "

Robert Byrne

" Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. "

Peter Minard

" In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. "

Charles W. Eliot US educator (1834 – 1926)

" Sanity is a madness put to good use. "

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. "

Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872) English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 – 1902)

" We do what we must, and call it by the best names. "

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

" Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm – it was gone. "

Author Unknown

" Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. "

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

" To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. "

Aaron Copland US composer (1900 – 1990)

" To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord. "

Arthur C. Clarke, 2010 English physicist & science fiction author (1917 – )

" Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. "

Archimedes, 300 B.C. Greek inventor, mathematician, & physicist (287 BC – 212 BC)

" The silent bear no witness against themselves. "

Aldous Huxley English critic & novelist (1894 – 1963)

" Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. "

Karl Weick

" Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. "

John Maynard Keynes English economist (1883 – 1946)

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