The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean Paul)
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. (Robert Frost)
The impossible is often the untried. (Jim Goodwin)
Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles. (Dorothy DeBolt)
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. (Paul Karl Feyerabend)
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus)
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. (Charles Franklin Kettering)
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat. (Proverbs Bible)
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal. (Horace)
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle. (Gertrude Stein)
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. (Bill Veeck)
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. (Anais Nin)
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind. . . . . (Phylos the Tibetan)
I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner) (Jim Lehrer)
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. (Elbert Hubbard)
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. (James R. Lowell)
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. (Nancy Banks-Smith)
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow. (Robert Jones Burdette)
There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)