" Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. "

William Ralph Inge English author & Anglican prelate (1860 – 1954)

" Facts are stupid things. "

Ronald Reagan 40th president of US (1911 – 2004)

" Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. "

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

" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "

Will Rogers, New York Times Aug. 31 1924 US humorist & showman (1879 – 1935)

" Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" Danger past, God forgotten. "

Scottish Proverb

" We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. "

Jenny Jerome Churchill

" The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) "

Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

" Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. "

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8 US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. "

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

" Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity. "

Napoleon Hill

" A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. "

Hermione Gingold, from a press report, 1973

" To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. "

Marilyn vos Savant

" Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. "

Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible

" The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. "

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 – 1965)

" I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. "

Blaise Pascal, “Lettres provinciales”, letter 16, 1657 French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)

" If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. "

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

" A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. "

Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964 French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 – 1980)

" We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. "

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

" After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein. "

Mark Gooley

" [He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "

Gloria Steinem, (attributed) US feminist (1934 – )

" A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. "

Richard Byrd

" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. "

H. P. Lovecraft US horror & supernatural author (1890 – 1937)

" Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. "

Henry Ford US automobile industrialist (1863 – 1947)

" I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. "

Henry Ward Beecher US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 – 1887)

" It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. "

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005 British fantasy author

" They always talk who never think. "

Matthew Prior English diplomat & poet (1664 – 1721)

" Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. "

Robert Anton Wilson

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