" The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "

Eden Phillpotts

" Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. "

Virgil, Eclogues Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

" To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. "

Marquis de Vauvenargues

" The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think. "

William O. Douglas US jurist (1898 – 1980)

" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "

W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)

" Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. "

Malcolm Forbes US art collector, author, & publisher (1919 – 1990)

" A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. "

Chinese Proverb

" Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. "

Harold S. Hulbert

" The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. "

Hermann Hesse Swiss (German-born) author (1877 – 1962)

" The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. "

Leonard I. Sweet

" Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. "

George Carlin US comedian and actor (1937 – )

" Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. "

W. R. Inge

" He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. "

Samuel Smiles

" I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world. "

Idi Amin

" Most people my age are dead at the present time. "

Casey Stengel US baseball manager (1890 – 1975)

" We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. "

E. M. Forster British novelist (1879 – 1970)

" Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. "

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD – 180 AD)

" In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. "

J. Krishnamarti

" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "

Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935 US poet & short story author (1898 – 1943)

" It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "

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

" To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. "

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

" You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. "

Woodrow Wilson 28th president of US (1856 – 1924)

" Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. "

Henry Miller US author (1891 – 1980)

" Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on. "

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament British politician (1874 – 1965)

" I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. "

Pat Conroy, “The Lords of Discipline” US novelist (1945 – )

" Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. "

Marlene Dietrich German movie actress (1901 – 1992)

" Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. "

Virgil, Aeneid Roman epic poet (70 BC – 19 BC)

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