Birth is a death sentence for mortals.
--Lonnie Liggitt
Beware the fury of the patient man.
--John Dryden, (1631-1700)
You can have nice things or you can have children.
--Betty J. Elwell, (1927-1997)
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
--H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956)
We are here to make another world.
--W. Edwards Deming
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
--Abraham Lincoln
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
--Eric Hoffer, (1902-1983)
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
--Harry S. Truman, (1884-1972)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
--Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826)
War would end if the dead could return.
--Stanley Baldwin, (1867-1947)
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
--Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
--Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."
-- H. L. Mencken
Hatred--the anger of the weak.
--Alphonse Daudet, writer (1840-1897)
When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
--Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826)
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
--Louis Dembitz Brandeis, (1856-1941)
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
--Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790)
What I stand for is what I stand on.
--Wendell Berry, (1934- )
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
--Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- -Paul Valery, (1871-1945)
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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