" Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. "

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

" Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared. "

Isaac Newton English mathematician & physicist (1642 – 1727)

" Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song. "

Luther

" Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. "

Mae West US movie actress (1892 – 1980)

" Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. "

James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880 US general & politician (1831 – 1881)

" The world is my lobster. "

Henry J. Tillman

" The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. "

Martin Mull US comedian and actor (1943 – )

" The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. "

Vincent Lombardi

" It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. "

Lord Acton

" Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this – you are the only one responsible for your own actions. "

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

" We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. "

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

" My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Fortune favors the brave. "

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

" It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others "

Michel de Montaigne French essayist (1533 – 1592)

" Their plans were improved with the best advice. "

J. R. R.Tolkien, The Hobbit

" The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. "

Edith Sitwell English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 – 1964)

" An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. "

Sir Henry Wotton

" We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. "

Teddy Roosevelt

" Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. "

R. D. Laing

" It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. "

Friedrich von Schiller German dramatist & poet (1759 – 1805)

" Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. "

Agesilaus the Second

" If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. "

Carl Schurz US (German-born) general & politician (1829 – 1906)

" Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. "

Andre Gide French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 – 1951)

" Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo.
I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world. "

James A Michener, Iberia

" If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. "

Jewish Proverb

" In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. "

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

" I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. "

Cato

" Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. "

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

" We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

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