" Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. "

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712 English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)

" Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done. "

George W. Bush 43rd President of US (1946 – )

" The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. "

Norman Thomas US socialist politician (1884 – 1968)

" The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. "

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

" I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. "

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

" Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. "

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

" It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. "

R. W. Griswold

" She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim… her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. "

Sylvia Levi

" The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. "

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

" As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. "

Arthur Cayley

" He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. "

Chinese proverb

" I intend to live forever or die trying. "

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 US novelist (1923 – )

" Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. "

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

" A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. "

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

" We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. "

Edward Gibbon English historian of Rome (1737 – 1794)

" Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities – of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull? "

Dick Francis, Twice Shy

" Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it! "

Peter de Jager

" After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do. "

John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56 US novelist (1902 – 1968)

" Every man over forty is a scoundrel. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. "

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

" When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him. "

Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim

" Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. "

Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag. "

Huey Long

" If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. "

John Russell

" A word to the wise is infuriating. "

Hunter S Thompson

" In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other. "

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

" Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. "

Kate Reid

" Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated "

Allphonse de Lamartine

" Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness – the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. "

G. Macdonald

" We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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