Anger as soon as fed is dead- / 'Tis starving makes it fat. 

--Emily Dickinson, (1830-1886)

It ain't braggin' if you can back it up!

--Dizzy Dean

While many talk of our agriculture keeping up with population growth, it would be more accurate to say that our population growth has kept up with our agriculture.

--Frank Elwell

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. 

--Isaac Newton

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. 

--Andre Gide

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

--Robert Green Ingersoll, (1833-1899)

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

--Dwight David Eisenhower, (1890-1969)

Making the decision to have a child is momentous -- it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. 

--Elizabeth Stone

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

--Abraham Lincoln

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. 

--Gaius Plinius (c. 61-112 A.D.)

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. 

--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. 

--Abraham Lincoln

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. 

--Cato the Elder, (234-149 BCE)

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. 

--Kierkegaard

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

--Gretel Ehrlich, (1946- )

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

--Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

--Henry Thomas Buckle, historian (1821-1862)

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.

--William Penn, Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.

--Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

--Barry Jones, politician, author (1932- )

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

--Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

--Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.

--Louis D. Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)