" One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind. "

Author Unknown

" A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. "

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10 British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. "

George Eliot English novelist (1819 – 1880)

" Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. "

Robert A. Heinlein, “If This Goes On”

" Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. "

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

" Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice. "

Anonymous

" History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. "

Maya Angelou US author & poet (1928 – )

" He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. "

Salvador De Madriaga

" A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. "

Homer, The Iliad Greek epic poet (800 BC – 700 BC)

" If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. "

St. Francis of Assisi

" Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Sweet is war to those who know it not. "

Pindar Greek lyric poet (522 BC – 443 BC)

" Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. "

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

" Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste. "

William A. Smith, 1908

" The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. "

Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 – 1961)

" Joy is not in things; it is in us. "

Richard Wagner

" Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. "

Steve Allen

" When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978 US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 – 1991)

" Honey is sweet but bees sting. "

French Proverb

" If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: “It seemed a good idea at the time.” "

Dame Rebecca West

" First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. "

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)

" I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. "

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

" Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. "

William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act 2 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being. "

Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 – 1961)

" Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. "

Hugo De Groot Dutch jurist & politician (1583 – 1645)

" Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse. "

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

" Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. "

Earl Warren US jurist & politician (1891 – 1974)

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