" A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. "

Benjamin H. Brewster US lawyer (1816 – 1888)

" Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. "

David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003 Writer at snopes.com

" Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. "

John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)

" The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. "

E.M. Cioran

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD – 430 AD)

" Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. "

W. C. Fields US actor (1880 – 1946)

" Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. "

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)

" No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. "

Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States

" My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss. "

Sir Edward Dyer

" Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song. "

Luther

" Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. "

James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880 US general & politician (1831 – 1881)

" The world is my lobster. "

Henry J. Tillman

" The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. "

Martin Mull US comedian and actor (1943 – )

" The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. "

Vincent Lombardi

" It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. "

Lord Acton

" Actions have consequences…first rule of life. And the second rule is this – you are the only one responsible for your own actions. "

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

" It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others "

Michel de Montaigne French essayist (1533 – 1592)

" The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. "

Edith Sitwell English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 – 1964)

" An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. "

Sir Henry Wotton

" We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. "

Teddy Roosevelt

" Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. "

R. D. Laing

" It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. "

Friedrich von Schiller German dramatist & poet (1759 – 1805)

" Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. "

Agesilaus the Second

" If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. "

Carl Schurz US (German-born) general & politician (1829 – 1906)

" Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. "

Andre Gide French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 – 1951)

" Yo soy un anima infeliz,Perdida en este mundo atormendo.
I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world. "

James A Michener, Iberia

" I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. "

Cato

" We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" My fellow astronauts… "

Dan Quayle, beginning a speech at an Apollo 11 anniversary celebration US Republican politician (1947 – )

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