| 1.) "Careful with fire" is good advice we know. "Careful with words" is ten times doubly so. - William Carleton |
| 2.) "Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law. - Aleister Crowley |
| 3.) "Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it." - George Bernard Shaw |
| 4.) "How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously. - A. A. Milne |
| 5.) "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." - Terry Pratchett |
| 6.) "Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the et - Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| 7.) "Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . . - Peter Drucker |
| 8.) "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." - G. K. Chesterton |
| 9.) (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands - e e cummings |
| 10.) . . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 11.) ...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. - Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 12.) ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. - Henri-Frdric Amiel |
| 13.) ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. - John Ruskin |
| 14.) ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. - Woodrow Wilson |
| 15.) ...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. - Adolf Hitler |
| 16.) ...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. - J. K. Rowling |
| 17.) ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. - John F. Kennedy |
| 18.) ...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. - Voltaire |
| 19.) ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 20.) [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp |
| 21.) [Common sense] is the best sense I know of. - Lord Chesterfield |
| 22.) [Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson |
| 23.) [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weaponlaughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecutionthese can lift at a colossal humbugpush it a littleweaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atom - Mark Twain |
| 24.) [It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. - Dan Quayle |
| 25.) [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. - Marge Piercy |
| 26.) [M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. - Michelle Burford |
| 27.) [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. - Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 28.) [Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - Alexander Smith |
| 29.) [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. - Lord Byron |
| 30.) [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasnt boring. - Zelda Fitzgerald |
| 31.) [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker |
| 32.) [Spring is] a true reconstructionist. - Henry Timrod |
| 33.) [Spring is] when life's alive in everything. - Christina Rossetti |
| 34.) [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple. - Chuck Sigars |
| 35.) [Television is] the triumph of machine over people. - Fred Allen |
| 36.) [The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! - Theodor Herzl |
| 37.) [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. - Terry Pratchett |
| 38.) [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. - Confucius |
| 39.) [The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost |
| 40.) [Water is] the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau |
| 41.) [When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. - Diogenes the Cynic |
| 42.) 1. Never tell everything at once. - Ken Venturi |
| 43.) 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North A - Kurt Vonnegut |
| 44.) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg |
| 45.) A bad beginning makes a bad ending. - Euripides |
| 46.) A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. - Abigail Van Buren |
| 47.) A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. - Hesiod |
| 48.) A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill. - Scottish Proverb |
| 49.) A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope |
| 50.) A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain |





