Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace.  The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

- -Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

The big thieves hang the little ones. 

--Czech proverb

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

--Tom Stoppard

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

- Mae West

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

--Linus Pauling

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969)

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

--Sir Isaac Newton

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

--Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

--Eugene V. Debs

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

--George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

--John Donne

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

--Carl Jung, (1875-1961)

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

--W. C. Fields

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, 

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

--Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

Words, like eyeglasses, obscure everything they do not make clear.

- -Joseph Joubert, moralist and essayist (1754-1824)

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. 

--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882)

I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." 

--George T. Angell, (1823-1909)

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

- -Arabic saying

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

- -John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873)

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. 

--H.L. Mencken, (1880-1956)

Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.

-John O'Hara, (1905-1970)