" It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. "

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

" Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. "

George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898) Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. "

William Hazlitt English essayist (1778 – 1830)

" At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans. "

John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004 US Democratic politician (1943 – )

" I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that

" We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. "

Dolly Parton

" I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. "

Ralph Nader

" You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. "

Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

" It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. "

Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)

" A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. "

Alfred E. Wiggam

" What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will. "

Sallust Roman historian & politician (86 BC – 34 BC)

" The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. "

John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers US essayist & naturalist (1837 – 1921)

" Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A “you can do it” when things are tough. "

Richard M. DeVos

" He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. "

Napoleon

" I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. "

Jean Cocteau French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 – 1963)

" A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. "

Sophocles, Trachiniae Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC – 406 BC)

" All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism. "

North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon

" Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. "

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

" If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. "

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

" A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. "

Thomas Paine, “The Rights of Man”, 1792 US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)

" To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well "

Author Unknown

" Divorces are made in heaven. "

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

" To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. "

Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999

" If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. "

Dolly Parton

" Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. "

R. A. Dickson

" To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. "

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" At age 50, every man has the face he deserves. "

George Orwell English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

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