" When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. "

Czech Proverb

" The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. "

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

" In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. "

Francis Thompson English poet (1859 – 1907)

" To secure peace is to prepare for war. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. "

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

" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of “Ten Best”. "

H. Allen Smith

" The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. "

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

" All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. "

William Harvey English physician (1578 – 1657)

" The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. "

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

" If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing. "

Anatole France French novelist (1844 – 1924)

" In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom. "

Nicanor Parra

" While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities. "

Bernard Weisberger, America Afire

" Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. "

Savielly Grigorievitcyh Tartakower

" Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. "

Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights

" Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman. "

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

" Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. "

Eleanor Roosevelt US diplomat & reformer (1884 – 1962)

" The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. "

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

" All good things are wild, and free. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. "

Russell Baker US columnist & journalist (1925 – )

" A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. "

Chinese Proverb

" The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. "

Evenius

" It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. "

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

" An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead. "

Sinclair Lewis US novelist (1885 – 1951)

" Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next. "

John Donne English clergyman & poet (1572 – 1631)

" Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. "

Elvis Presley US rock singer (1935 – 1977)

" Beauty holds more worth than gold. "

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

" The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever. "

Anatole France French novelist (1844 – 1924)

" What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery French writer (1900 – 1944)

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