" Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. "

Jimmy Durante US actor, comedian, pianist, & singer (1893 – 1980)

" Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws. "

Baruch Spinoza Dutch Jewish philosopher (1632 – 1677)

" Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare. "

Lewis Ward

" There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. "

Christopher Morley US author & journalist (1890 – 1957)

" Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases. "

American Heart Association Cookbook

" Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. "

Ann Landers US advice columnist (1918 – 2002)

" Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong — because someday you will have been all of these. "

George Washington Carver

" The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. "

Charles de Gaulle French general & politician (1890 – 1970)

" Goodness is the only investment that never fails. "

French Proverb

" The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. "

Christopher Morley US author & journalist (1890 – 1957)

" To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. "

Sir Walter Scott Scottish author & novelist (1771 – 1832)

" Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. "

Welsh Proverb

" Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
(Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens) "

Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations German dramatist & poet (1759 – 1805)

" I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. "

Fanny Burney

" We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. "

Charles Kingsley English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)

" This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read. "

Winston Churchill

" You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. "

Al Capone US gangster (1899 – 1947)

" Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. "

Paul Gauguin French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 – 1903)

" If there is no struggle, there is no progress. "

Frederick Douglas

" Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. "

Bias

" Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed. "

Phaedrus Roman author of fables (15 BC – 50 AD)

" Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty. "

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

" In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. "

Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

" Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. "

Amelia Earhart US aviator (1897 – 1937)

" There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Reading and Writing” German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action…, No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought. "

Joshua L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,

" Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them. "

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)

" The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. "

Don Marquis US humorist (1878 – 1937)

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