" The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. "

Edmund Burke Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

" Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. "

Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933) US social worker, sociologist, & suffragist (1860 – 1935)

" As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. "

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

" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "

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

" The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. "

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825 French gourmet & lawyer (1755 – 1826)

" Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "

Theodore Roosevelt 26th president of US (1858 – 1919)

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" The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. "

Clarence Darrow US defense lawyer (1857 – 1938)

" Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. "

National Lampoon, “Deteriorata”

" Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind. "

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

" You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea "

Author Unknown

" Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. "

Horace, Epistles Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)

" It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. "

Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician & philosopher (1861 – 1947)

" Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. "

Phyllis Diller

" What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English critic & poet (1772 – 1834)

" This poem will never reach its destination. "

Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

" The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. "

Saint Jerome, Letter 48 church father & saint (374 AD – 419 AD)

" I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. "

Tom Stoppard British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )

" Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief. "

A. Huxley, Island

" You guys line up alphabetically by height. "

Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach

" The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

" To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. "

Gustave Flaubert French realist novelist (1821 – 1880)

" Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. "

Elizabeth Bowen Irish novelist & short story author (1899 – 1973)

" An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. "

Zora Neale Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” US novelist of Harlem Renaissance (1901 – 1960)

" The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. "

Hazrat Inayat Khan

" Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief. "

The Talmud

" Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. "

Edward Gibbon English historian of Rome (1737 – 1794)

" Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting. "

Abbie Hoffman US radical activist (1936 – 1989)

" I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. "

Sylvia Plath US novelist & poet (1932 – 1963)

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