" Hold a true friend with both hands. "

Nigerian Proverb

" Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. "

Robert Frost US poet (1874 – 1963)

" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. "

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

" Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability. "

J. William Galbraith

" The cynics are right nine times out of ten. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. "

Mortimer Adler

" Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. "

Alexander Hamilton US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 – 1804)

" There is no such thing as justice–in or out of court. "

Clarence Darrow US defense lawyer (1857 – 1938)

" Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. "

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. "

Bob Marley

" What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed. "

Sara Teasdale US poet (1884 – 1933)

" The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. "

Alan Saporta

" In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. "

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus Greek historian & traveler (484 BC – 430 BC)

" If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. "

Angelina Jolie American actress (1975 – )

" He who limps still walks. "

Stanislaw Lec

" If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like. "

Prophet Mohammad, Abu-Masud: Bukhari

" The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. "

John Kenneth Galbraith US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 – )

" One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. "

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

" One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. "

Josh Billings US Humorist (1818 – 1885)

" Fail, fail again, fail better. "

Samuel Beckett Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 – 1989)

" There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. "

Christopher Morley US author & journalist (1890 – 1957)

" God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee. "

The Talmud

" Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. "

Chinese Proverb

" We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. "

William Ernest Hocking US philosopher (1873 – 1966)

" Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. "

Tallulah Bankhead US movie actress (1903 – 1968)

" Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. "

Lillian Hellman US dramatist (1905 – 1984)

" Getting old is not for sissies. "

Bette Davis US movie actress (1908 – 1989)

" A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. "

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

" An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. "

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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