John F. Kennedy

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Werner Heisenberg

The difference between what we do and what were capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world problems. 

Gandhi

They are able who think they are able. 

Virgil

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Goethe

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way. 

Eugene Ionesco

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Gandhi

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obey it-an ideal of art, of science, or gospel virtues. Therein lies the spring of great thoughts and great actions.

Louis Pasteur.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

We will find a way or make one. 

Hannibal

Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.

Pliny the Younger

It is always in season for old men to learn. 

Aeschylus

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.

Hasidic saying

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. 

Constantin Brancusi

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

W. Somerset Maugham

The bible should be thought so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it. 

Northrop Frye

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outsider notice in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and intellectual elite, causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

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

A. Lincoln

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for:

50 % of all auto fatalities
80 % of all home violence
30 % of all suicides
60 % of all child abuse
65 % of all drownings

It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease, her husband leaves her in nine out of ten cases; when a man contracts it, his wife leaves in one out of nine cases.

Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Gustav Jung

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. 

Aristophanes

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon

All the great pleasure in life are silent. 

Georges Clemenceau

I could prove God statistically 

George Gallup

Too bad that all the people that know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

Calmness is always Godlike. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that is of merry hearth has a continual feast. 

Proverbs

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. 

Martin Luther King Sr.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King

History is more or less bunk. 

Henry Ford

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone
Who is powerful? He that governs his passions
Who is rich? He who is content.
Who is he? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

If you treat men the way they are, you never improve them. if you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Goethe

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle 

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

We are all here for a spell, get all the laughs you can.

Will Rogers

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Cicero

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. 

Winston Churchill

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Albert Schweitzer 

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. 

Anatole France

Truth is the safest lie. 

Jewish proverb

A half truth is a whole lie. 

Jewish proverb

When you have robbed man of everything,he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenytsin

If you wouldn't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

Rabbi Nahman of Bratislav

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. 

Jawaharlal Nehru

This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. 

George Bernard Shaw

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl G. Jung

How many really capable men are children more than once a day.

Napoleon Bonaparte

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. 

Benjamin Franklin

There are three classes of men - Lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

Plato

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. 

Epicurus

A good mind possesses a kingdom; a great fortune is a great slavery.

Seneca

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

Albert Schweitzer

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cant do without.

Confucius

I am tired before the concert, not afterward. 

Arthur Rubinstein

The unnatural - that too is natural. 

Goethe

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. 

Bertrand Russell

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dreams.

Vincent van Gogh

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Jewish proverb

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. 

Goethe

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Goethe

90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. 

Walter Lippman

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. 

A. Lincoln

A politician... one that would circumvent God. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. 

Ronald Reagan

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

Tommy Douglas

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Will Rogers

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Benjamin Disraeli

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worst than the other.

Will Rogers

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. 

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have never regarded politics as an arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

Aneurin Bevan

In order to become the master, the politician poses as servant.

Charles de Gaulle

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Soren Kierkegaard

Seriously, I do not think that I am fit for the presidency

A. Lincoln

I desire to conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end....I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

A. Lincoln

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary considerations could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it. 

George Washington

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

Mahatma Gandhi

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Heinrich Heine

My downfall raises me to infinite heights. 

Napoleon Bonaparte

Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would live to study, not study to live. 

Francis Bacon

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 

Albert Einstein

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

John F. Kennedy

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. 

Martin Luther King Jr.

Science is an attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to logically uniform system of thought.

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I"m doing.

Wernher von Braun

Even in your thought do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter. 

Ecclesiastes 10:20

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Axel Munthe

Self-command is the main elegance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no other combination of words, however felicitous, could accomplish it. 

Mark Twain

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

One of the great necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought-that is real force.

Albert Schweitzer

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognised. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second, it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer 

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death. 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennoble the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. 

Martin Luther King Jr.

Either war is obsolete, or men are. 

Buckminster Fuller

In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. 

T. Roosevelt.

La raison avant la passion- Reason before passion. 

P.E.Trudeau

Wisdom is always an overwatch for strength. 

Phaedrus

Melancholy men are of all others most witty. 

Aristotles

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.

Ecclesiasticus

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

George Sand

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. 

Oscar Wilde

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Duke of Wellington

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a long time to become young. 

Pablo Picasso

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.......

Mark Twain 

A lie which is half truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Tennyson

The wisdom of the wise, and the experiences of the ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Isaac D'Israely

Truth, good or bad, will float up. 

P.S.
Things don't just happen, they are planned that way.

F.D.Roosevelt

You could fool some of the people some of the time, you could fool some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Abe Lincoln

Genius is pleasure and pleasure is genius, whereas prison's punishment is uselessness and boredom.
In the Universe all is natural and all is supernatural. Have your choice.
The might is right, but the right is a growing might. 

P.S.
Loneliness is philosophers delight and the weaklings sorrow.

P.S.
When you have learned how to live, life itself is the reward.

Rabbi Harold Kusner

On Heaven. Incomprehensible, indescribable, inconceivable, unutterable,...

Buddha

Control yourself, or someone else will. 

P.S.
Life is beautiful, if you are fruitful 

P.S.

Success in some societies start with success, wealth, joy, pride, power, intransigence, impertinence, enforcement, decay, and finally ruthlessness.

P.S. 
To learn is good, to think is better. 

P.S.
Enjoy mind atrophiants or mind development. Choose.

P.S.
The man who has not been seriously concerned, at least once in his life, with theological problems, is irremediably mediocre.
From a man's reaction to theology you can gage his spiritual dimensions. There is nothing more depressing, nothing more alarming in the present condition of the West, than the "triumph of the intelligence" over theology. (Actually, of course, it is more a matter of the triumph of the clever man over the thinker)

Mircea Eliade Autobiography 43

The spiritual sterility of America, its overwhelming vulgarity, goes hand in hand with the secularisation of theology, with the transformation of a stunning system of metaphysics and revelations into innumerable systems of ethics, hygiene, social policies, birth control, etc.

Mircea Eliade Autobiography 44

Wisdom is radiant and unfading and she is easily loved by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her. she hasten to make herself known to those who desire her. One who raises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for she will be found sitting at the gate. To fix one's thought on her is perfect understanding, and one who is vigilant on her account will soon be free from care, because she goes about seeking those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths and meets them in every thought.

Wisdom 6:12-16

If there is any primary rule of science, it is...acceptance of the obligation to acknowledge and describe all of the reality, all that exists, everything that is the case...it must accept within its jurisdiction over that which it cannot understand, explain, that for which no theory exists, that which cannot be measured, predicted, controlled, or ordered...it includes all levels or stages of knowledge, including the inchoate, knowledge of low reliability... and subjective experience.

Abraham Maslow

The main reason for healing is love. 

Paracelsus 

"As I wrote, she guided my hand; the words came tumbling out, and at such a speed that my pen rushed across the paper and I could barely write fast enough to put them down. 

George Bernard Shaw

Note: Bernard Shaw claimed that it was St. Joan of Arc that wrote his play "Saint Joan" and guided his hand across the paper.

Coles. St. Joan Notes. P.11

George Bernard Shaw believes that Joan's education, such as it was, was superior to the education she would have received in the twentieth century.

In Joan's own time, she was tought ennobling features. She learned that "the consecrated wafer was the very body of the virtue that was her salvation..." But in the 1900s Joan would have been thought all sorts of things of which Shaw disapproves.

She would be told "not to be a superstitious little fool;" she would be told that Saint Teresa was not a holy woman but a victim of overfunctioning endocrine glands. She would be convinced that vivisection and vaccination "were enlightened practices."

Her saints would be replaced by "hypochondria, melancholia, cowardice, stupidity, cruelty, muckraking curiosity, knowledge without wisdom, and everything that the eternal soul in Nature loathes...." She would be concerned about Oedipus complexes, antibodies and inoculations.

Coles. St. Joan Notes. P.35

Shaw believes that Joan would be persecuted today just as she was persecuted in 1431, because man has not changed for the better since then.... 

Coles. St. Joan Notes P.40

In a letter to a friend Charles Darwin referred to his own evolution as "The Devil's Gospel".

Catholic Family news Dec. 1996 P.1 

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self-deceptions.

If he possesses a grain of wisdom, he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown....by the name of God.

C.G.Jung

Pleasure. What is pleasure? Whatever you think it is. Momentary pleasures, temporal pleasures or eternal pleasures searching for and obeying the eternal laws. The negative pleasures will become negative and the positive pleasures will become positive.

U.L. Faurar.

Cardiologist Randolph Byrd, a practicing Christian designed his study as a scientific evaluation of the role of God in healing.

Over a ten-month period, a computer assigned 393 patients admitted to the coronary care unit at San Francisco General Hospital to either a group that was prayed for by home prayer groups (192 patients) or to a group that was not remembered in prayer (201 patients). It was randomised by the computer, double-blind experiment in which neither the patients, nurses, nor doctors knew which group the patients were in.

The prayed-for patients differed in several areas:

1)They were five times less likely than the unremembered group too require antibiotics (three patients compared to sixteen patients).

2) They were three times less likely to develop pulmonary edema, a condition in which the lungs fill with fluid as a consequence of the heart to pump properly. (Six compared to eighteen patients)

3) None of the prayed-for group required endotracheal intubation, in which an artificial airway is inserted in the throat and attached to a mechanical ventilator, while twelve in the unremembered group required mechanical ventilatory support.

4) Fewer in the prayed-for group died. (although this difference was not statistically significant.) 

Healing Words by Larry Dossey M.D Pge.180

Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. 

And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.

Apollonius of Tyana

Ephesians! Be rich, I cannot wish you worse.

Heraclitus

NOTE: The following quotations are from The World Almanac of Presidential Quotations.

Edited by Elisabeth Frost-Knappman - Pharos Books N.Y.

I voted for Buchanan because I didn't know him, and voted against John C. Fremont because I knew him.

Ulisses S. Grant. Nov. 1856

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin.

Herbert Hoover May 31 1932

For thee long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government cost too much. I shall not stop that preaching. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt July 2 1932

We can afford all that we need, but we cannot afford all we want.

Franklin D. Roosevelt May 22 1935

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people.

A. Lincoln January 1837

The trusts are dangerous conspiracies against the public good.

William McKinley Sept. 1900

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labour. Under this concentration, independent business....has been a menace to ....American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt June 27 1936

A decade ago Americans earned higher wages than anyone else in the world. Now we're thirteenth and falling. In Europe and Japan our competitors' economies grew three and four times faster than ours because their leaders decided to invest in their people and Washington did not.

Bill Clinton 1992

It is time for the great silent majority of Americans to stand up and be counted.

Richard Nixon Oct. 1970

We've got to stop using the classrooms and the kids as the cutting edges for social and economic problems that will have to be solved elsewhere. Our goal should be education not litigation.

Richard Nixon Feb. 1970

Communism is a hateful thing, and menace to peace and organised government. But the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermine the justice and integrity of free institutions is no less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.

Grover Cleveland Dec. 3 1888

This is not a casual argument against slightly different philosophies. This is a war of light against darkness, freedom against slavery, Godliness against atheism.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Jan. 1953

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, Before I had become President of U.S. 

James K. Polk Dec. 18 1846

Congress does from a third to a half of what I think is the minimum that it ought to do, and I am profoundly grateful that I get as much. 

Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 1904

Nobody will deny that the majority of the Congress have been reduced to a rubber stamp for the executive. They don't deny it themselves.

Herbert Hoover 1933

The selfishness of the members of Congress is incredible.... They are just about driving me nuts.

Dwight D. Eisenhower July 27 1954

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

A. Lincoln Oct. 16 1854

When a government become totally corrupted, the system of God Almighty in the government of the world, and the rules of all good government upon earth, will be reversed, and virtue, integrity, will become the objects of malice, hatred and revenge of the men in power, and folly, vice, and villany will be cherished and supported.

John Adams 1770

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washinghton Aug. 17, 1779

The only remedy (for corruption) is to throw the rich and the proud into one group, in a separate assembly, and there tie their hands; if you give them scope with the people at large or their representatives, they will destroy "all equality and liberty, with the consent and acclamations of the people themselves.

John Adams 1787

Mr. President, we have all been praying for you.
Which way, Senator?

Woodrow Wilson to Senator Albert Fall Dec. 1919

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

James Madison Apr. 13, 1790

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson May 28 1816

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes-a principle which if acted on, would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson 1820

It (extravagance) is the most fatal of all the deadly brood born of governmental perversion. It hides beneath its wings the betrayal of the people's trust and holds powerless in its fascinating glance the people's will and conscience. It brazenly exhibit to-day a billion dollar Congress.

Grover Cleveland May 12 1891

There are crimes far worse than murder for which men should be reviled and punished.

Herbert Hoover On credit inflation cited in Eugene Lyons, Herbert Hoover a Biography. 

We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Jan 17 1961

They (the authors of the Declaration of Independence) knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should reappear in this fair land and commerce their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

A. Lincoln June 27 1857

Money and not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

Thomas Jefferson 1810

Merchants are the least virtuous citizens and possess the least "amor patriae."

Thomas Jrfferson 1786

The Boston Post says, I Hayes will in the absence of Mrs. Hayes be acting President.

Letter to Mrs. Hayes

Dante Alighieri  was granted an amnesty to return to Florence under humiliating conditions. But Dante's pride forbade him to re-enter Florence "except with honor, secure that the means of life will not fail him, and free to gaze at the sun and the stars, and meditate on the sweetest fruits of philosophy."

100 Great Lives. Odham Press Ltd. Long Acres London. Pge 177

When Otto von Bismark was Prussian ambasador at the court of Alexander ll in the early sixties of the last century, he looked out of a window  at the Peterhof Pallace and saw a sentry on duty in the middle of a lawn. He asked the czar why the man was there. The czar asked his aide-de-camp. The aide-de-camp did not know. He sent for the officer in comand. The officer in command did not know.The general in commandin troops at Peterhof was summoned.

"General, why is that soldier stationed in that isolated place?"

"I beg leave to inform your majesty that it is in accordance with ancient custom."

"What was the origin of that custom?' put in Bismark.

"Investigate and report the result," ordered Alexander.

The investigation took three days. They found that the sentry was posted there by an order put on the books  eighty years before!  For one morning in spring, Catherine the Great had looked on that lawn  and seen the first flower thrusting above the frozen soil. She ordered a sentry to be posted to prevent anyone from picking the flower. And in 1860 there was still a sentry on the lawn-a memorial to a flower, and to the Catherine The Great.

100 Great Lives. Odham Press Ltd. Long Acre London Pge 437 

Nicholas llat the moment was playing tenis at Peterhof. When the Emperor was handed a telegram, he had two bals in his left hand, the racket raised, ready to serve. He took the telegram with the right hand, raising the telegram and the racket to his eyes, reading: Russian Fleet anihilated at Shushima. Stop. Nearly all our shops sunk.The Csar shoved the telegram in his trousers pocket. Thirty-fifteen," he said and served.

"Faraday himself," said Sir Amrose Fleming, "never gave attention to so-called 'useful' applications of his scientific work. His mind was entirely occupied with with the endeavour to penetrate further into the secrets of Nature.....For nearly forty years he went every working day into his laboratory with some new question to put experimentally to Nature and he never paused until he had a sufficient answer 'yea' or 'nay' to his query.

Pge 80

Confucius, to a  ruler who offered him the revenues of a town for his maintainance he sent the sublime retort: "A superior man will only receive reward for services rendered. I have advised the duke; he has not obeyed, and now he would endow me. Very far is he from understanding. With coarse rice to eat, water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow, I still have joy  in these things. Riches and honour aquired unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud."

Pge 276

I prefer to serve no one, and be of service, if I can, to everyone.

Desiderius Erasmus Pge 308

Benjamin Franklin invented in a new kind of open stove, for which he declioned a patent, on the grounds "that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others  by an invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." 

Pge 323

"The more I contemplate the misteries of Nature, the more my faith becomes like that of a Breton peasant. Perhaps, if I learn still more, I shall have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife."

Louis Pasteur, Pge 108

The aim and  result of war is plunder. 

When God caught Adam and Eve in the act, He chased them out of heaven. When men didn't learn the lesson, He brought on them the flood. When that failed also, God thought of a permanent punishment for man. Politicians.

Half truth is a full lie.

Jewish proverb

Collection from:
The Toastmaster's Treasure Chest.
Herbert V. Prochnow & Herbert V. Prochnow.
Harper & Row, Publishers.

One day a stranger came to Abrahm Lincoln  with a barrel full of odds and ends. He said that he was in need of money and that he would be much obliged if  Linciln would help him out by giving him a dollar for the barrel. The contents he said, were not of much value; they were some old newspapers and things of that sort. But the stranger needed that money very badly...... Lincoln with his characteristic kindness, gave the man a dollar, even though he could not imagine any use that he would have for its contents. Some time ;later, when he went out to clear the barrel, he found that it contained almost a complete edition of Blacksone's Commentaries. It was the chance, or synchronistic, aquisition of these books that enabled Lincoln to become a lawyer and eventually to embark on a political career.

Coincidences, Chance or Fate by Ken Anderson Pge 147

Any song that moves you to joy or tears, has greatness. Everything in life should be enjoyed for what it is.

Marguerite Piazza, Metropolitan Opera.

The way to crush the burgeoisie is is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Nikolai Lenin

The goal of all life is death, Sigmund Freud. (How could this man be so stupid?)

In nothing do men  approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to men.

Cicero

It's not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.

Henry Ford

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, "I love you." The real trick is to get them to say, "Will you marry me.?"

Ilka Chase

The soul of a civilisation is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Will and Ariel Durant

I was at a party feeling very shy because there were a lot of celebrities around, and I was sitting alone in a corner and a very beautiful young man came up to me and offered me some salted peanuts and he said "I wish they were emeralds" as he handed me the peanuts and that was the end of my hearth. I never got it back.

Helen Hayes

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it a second time - a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

I'm very healthy. And I have an eternal curiosity. Then I think I'm not dependent on any person. I love people, I love my family, I love my children. .... But inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Pearl Buck

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Albert Einstein 

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei.

If the soul has food for study and  learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure....
Leisure consist  of all those virtuous activities by which man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes life worth living.

Cicero

When a man has pity on all living creatures, then only is he noble.   

Budha

It is a socialist idea that making a profit is a vice. I consider real the vice is making losses.

Winston Churchil

A man who dares waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Chares Darwin

Thwo things  fill the mind  with ever new and increasing wonder and awe.- the starry heavens above me and, and the moral law within me. 

Immanuel Kant

It is the biggest mistake in the world to think you are working for someone else.

..........If a political party does not have its foundations in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party, it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Gustav Jung

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup.

You can't say that civilisation don't advance, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers.

I can pardon everyone's mistkes but my own. 

Cato

The profet and the martir do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Charles H. Mayo

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organisation of the total conformity-in short of tyranny-and is committed to make tiranny universal.

Adlay E. Stevenson

In the cause of freedom we have to battle for the rights of people with whom we do not agree; and whom in many cases we may not like......If we don't defend their rights we endanger  our own.

Harry S. Truman 

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Booker T. Washington 

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wendel L. Willkie

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it create world history. If it is weak, world history suffer.

Albert Schweitzer

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Omar N. Bradley

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to a club that will accept me as a member.

Graucho Marx

I could think of no one.among my contemporaries who have achieved so considerable a position on so little talent.

W. Somerset Maugham

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harde.

Nikita S,. Kruschev. (Phew, it took 70 years to figure that out?)

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile than vangeance.

Winston Churchill

I am not young enough to know everything.

Joseph Joubert

The end of the human race will die of civilisation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I wanted to punish a province, I would have it governed by a philosopher.

Frederick the Great. ( A philosopher wouldn't accept the job.)

I have seen three emperors in thei nakednes, and the sight was not inspiring.

Otto Von Bismarck

I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clarck do.

Nicholas l

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will br true.

Arnold Bennett.

J.M. Barrie 

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggoe!? till you can find a rock.

Wynn Catlin 

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbour notice it.

Trygve Lie

But no, that would be common sense-and out of place in a government.

Mark Twain

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I am an optimist. It does not too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchil

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, Senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

Senator Henry Wilson

I can live for two months on a good compliment

Mark Twain

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason: I can never be stisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm not smart, I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but only Newton asked why.

Bernard  M. Baruch

All the historical books which contain no lies, are extremely tedious.

Anatole France

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Will Rogers

A conqueror is always a lover of peace. 

Karl von Klausewitz

A group can spark an idea but only an individual can have one. As former president Griswold of Yale so aptly asked: "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee? Or the Mona Lisa painted  by a club?" 

W. John Upjohn

Beethoven probably surpasseed all other musicians in his persisted application. There is scarcely a bar in his music that was not written and rewritten at least a dozen times. Gibbon wrote his autobiography nine times, and was in his study every morning, summer and winter at six o'clock; and yet youth who waste their evening wonder at the genius which can produce "The decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, upon which Gibbon worked twenty years.

Even Plato, one of the greatest writers that ever lived, wrote the first sentence in his "Republic"  nine different ways before he was satisfied with it.Burke wrote the conclusion of speech at the trial of Hasting sixteen times, and Butler his famous "Analogy" twenty times. It took Vergil seven years to write his "Georgics" and twelve years to write the "Aeneid."

The great Mozart, unable to afford heat for his room, wrapped his hands in woolen socks while writting some of his most immortal music. This great musica genius was first buried in a pauper's grave.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor and American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first-the most bsic-expretion of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus, with God's help, it will continue to be.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. 

Confucius

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals, as well as that of his fellow man, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Albert Schweitzer

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

W.R.Inge, Dean of St. Paul's

The more a man finds his sources of pleasure in himself, the happier he will be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man - a being in search of meaning.      

Plato

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

There was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wenher von Braun

If men were equal we wouldn't need laws to hold back thae able.

We long for the good old days when we were young and knew everything.

We understand several government departments have a large number of millions for emergencies which no doubt can be developed as needed.

The best thing the parents could spend on their children is time not miney.

You can measure the progress of a civilisation by who gets more applause - the clown or the thinker.

The beginning of wisdom is silence. The second step is listening.

If you want to know who the boss is, find out who you should not criticise.

As you grow older, you grow wiser, talk less and say more.

Education does not mean a college education. The author of the Gettysburg Address and the second inaugural could hardly be called uneducated.

Bergen Evans

Allways remember other may hate you, don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon

I don't know what your destiniy will be, But one thing I know; The only  ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Civilisation: A limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.              

Mark Twain

History: The propaganda of thr victorious.

Ernst Toller

How many things I can dowithout.      

Socrates

One murder makes a villain, Millions a hero. 

Live not for time, but eternity

They can conquer who believe they can      

Virgil

Deceivers are deceiving themselves thinking they could deceive.

Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.   

Benjamin Franklin

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.    

Mark Twain

In the long run sword is beaten by the mind.     

Napoleon

We are corrupted by prosperity.        

Latin

Speak no ill of a friend, not even of an enemy.     

Greek

Vanity is the food of fools.

In a just cause the weak overcomes the strong.     

Greek

A wise man a strong man       

German

A wise man is never less alone  than when alone    

Latin

Who knows most, speaks quietly.     

Herbert V. Prochnov

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