" Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy. "

Author Unknown

" Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. "

Quentin Crisp

" Look who

" Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision? "

Marilyn Monroe US actress (1926 – 1962)

" If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. "

Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

" I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. "

William Claire American poet and essayist

" To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" I row after health like a waterman… "

Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

" Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. "

Baltasar Gracian

" Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost. "

M. Scott Peck

" The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. "

James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926 US essayist & novelist (1879 – 1958)

" Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. "

Robert Byrne

" Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! "

Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17. Scottish author & novelist (1771 – 1832)

" Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton US suffragist (1815 – 1902)

" Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying. "

Mary Wilson Little

" Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. "

David Starr Jordan US biologist, educator, & ichthyologist (1851 – 1931)

" If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. "

Ezra Bowen

" If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. "

George Aiken

" In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. "

Mohandas Ghandi

" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. "

Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 – 1961)

" Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. "

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963 US architect & engineer (1895 – 1983)

" As to diseases make a habit of two things – to help, or at least, to do no harm. "

Hippocrates, Epidemics Greek physician (460 BC – 377 BC)

" You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. "

Florida Scott-Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

" The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. "

Ursula K. LeGuin

" Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation. "

Peter S. Prescott

" Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.” "

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth) Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. "

South

" The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. "

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

" Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. "

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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