" The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness…This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. "

Plato, The Republic Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. "

Russell Baker US columnist & journalist (1925 – )

" There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well. "

Francis Bacon

" Good laws have their origins in bad morals. "

Ambrosius Macrobius

" I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. "

Tom Lehrer US humorist, singer, & songwriter (1928 – )

" I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. "

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby US novelist (1896 – 1940)

" Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. "

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

" Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. "

Raymond Holliwell

" No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. "

Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

" The public is a ferocious beast — one must either chain it up or flee from it. "

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

" My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose. "

J.B.S. Haldane, “On Being the Right Size” in the (1928) book “Possible Worlds”

" Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. "

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

" Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. "

Jim Morrison

" I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. "

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte French general & politician (1769 – 1821)

" Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. "

Sally Koch

" Food is our common ground, a universal experience. "

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

" Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me… Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. "

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

" Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. "

Henry Ford US automobile industrialist (1863 – 1947)

" A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. "

William Butler Yeats Irish dramatist & poet (1865 – 1939)

" A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for. "

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

" May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends. "

Irish Blessing

" A Hospital is no place to be sick. "

Samuel Goldwyn US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 – 1974)

" I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. "

Og Mandino

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