The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span. (Francis Bacon)
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. (Janet Long)
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. (Edith Cavell)
I'm telling you, just attach a big parachute TO THE PLANE ITSELF Is anyone listening to me (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. (Bertrand Russell)
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. (Kenko Yoshida)
Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. (Jane Harrison)
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. (Anne Bradstreet)
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. (Etty Hilsum)
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Know thyself. (The Seven Sages)
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. (Golda Meir)
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. (Maya Angelou)
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. (Jim)
We are punished by our sins, not for them. (Elbert Hubbard)
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. (Leo Buscaglia)
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke. (W. J. Cameron)
A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. (B. A. Billingsly)
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. (Harry S Truman)