" I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. "

Johnny Carson US comedian & television host (1925 – 2005)

" Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them. "

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

" You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. "

John J. Plomp

" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "

Edna Ferber US author (1887 – 1968)

" Where humor is concerned there are no standards – no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. "

John Kenneth Galbraith US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 – )

" Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. "

Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek philosopher (341 BC – 270 BC)

" Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. "

Calvin Coolidge 30th president of US (1872 – 1933)

" Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. "

Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

" Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. "

John Ciardi US poet (1916 – 1986)

" Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. "

Nick Diamos

" You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. "

Dave Barry US columnist & humorist (1947 – )

" Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. "

Charles A. Dana US newspaper editor (1819 – 1897)

" Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. "

Arnold Bennett

" I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. "

Zsa Zsa Gabor US (Hungarian-born) actress (1919 – )

" Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him "

Clark Mousakas

" Fashion changes, style remains. "

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

" I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. "

Anais Nin US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 – 1977)

" Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. "

Demonax

" Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. "

Ashley Montague

" Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. "

Joseph Addison, Cato English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)

" On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction. "

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 (250 BC – 250 AD)

" What power has law where only money rules. "

Gaius Petronius (~66 AD)

" Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected. "

Lord Bertrand Russell

" Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. "

Linus Pauling, No More War!

" He who spares the wicked injures the good. "

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

" People forget how fast you did a job — but they remember how well you did it. "

Howard W. Newton

" Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. "

Jawaharlal Nehru Indian politician (1889 – 1964)

" The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. "

J. Martin Kohe

" Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. "

Pope John Paul II (aka: Karol Wojtyla)

" Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. "

Lenny Bruce (1923 – 1966)

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