" Reality continues to ruin my life. "

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes US cartoonist (1958 – )

" It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it

" I repeat…that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. "

Ogden Nash US humorist & poet (1902 – 1971)

" He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. "

Sir Francis Bacon English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 – 1626)

" Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. "

Author Unknown

" Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. "

Marya Mannes

" To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something. "

Walker Percy

" To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. "

Richard Whately

" Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. "

Frank Moore Colby

" He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. "

Ben Jonson English dramatist & poet (1572 – 1637)

" Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. "

Miss Piggy US Muppet and Pig

" Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. "

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688 – 1744)

" I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it. "

Margaret Thatcher British politician (1925 – )

" The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. "

Peter De Vries

" It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" We can learn even from our enemies. "

Ovid, Metamorphoses Roman poet (43 BC – 17 AD)

" Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. "

Menander Greek comic dramatist (342 BC – 292 BC)

" The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. "

Karl Marx German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 – 1883)

" Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. "

Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

" To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. "

Baltasar Gracian

" Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. "

Author Unknown

" It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak and the other to hear. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. "

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

" So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003 German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" The more things change, the more they remain… insane. "

Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

" I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. "

Marilyn Monroe US actress (1926 – 1962)

" Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. "

H. H. Munro, (Saki)

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