" And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. "

Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey English novelist (1820 – 1849)

" The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. "

Benjamin Franklin US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

" The humble suffer when the mighty disagree. "

Phaedrus Roman author of fables (15 BC – 50 AD)

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense. "

Author Unknown

" Spare no expense to save money on this one. "

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

" The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception. "

Baron Manfred von Richthofen (“Red Baron”)

" I say, thou mad March hare. "

John Skelton, Replication Against Certain Young Scholars English humorist & poet (1460 – 1529)

" The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. "

Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion – which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. "

Walter Lippmann US author & journalist (1889 – 1974)

" Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety. "

Tryon Edwards (1809 – 1894)

" To him who is determined it remains only to act. "

Italian

" Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. "

Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman

" In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. "

Groucho Marx US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 – 1977)

" We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. "

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

" The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. "

J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966 US politician (1905 – )

" Beware the man of one book. "

Saint Thomas Aquinas Italian saint & theologian (1225 – 1274)

" What a splendid head, yet no brain. "

Aesop Greek slave & fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)

" Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. "

Anonymous

" Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. "

Demosthenes, First Olynthiac Greek orator & politician in Athens (384 BC – 322 BC)

" How long does getting thin take? Pooh asked anxiously. "

A. A. Milne English juvenile author (1882 – 1956)

" There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve. "

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

" The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. "

Frank Herbert US science fiction novelist (1920 – 1986)

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