Quotes

The sun shines even on the wicked. - Seneca (B.C. 5-65 A.D.)

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap. - Juvenal (40-125 A.D.)

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. - Mohammed (570-632 A.D.)

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte (1836-1902)

All zoos actually offer the public, in return for the taxes spent upon them, is a form of idle witless amusment, compared to which a visit to the state penitentiary, or even a state legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and enobling. - H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that in all things good, gain is harder and slower than loss; but in all things bad or evil, getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of them. - Hare & Charles (c. 1830)

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. - Tacitus (55-117 A.D.)

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. - Spinoza (1632-1677)

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong. - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. - Robert G.Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Crank-a man with a new idea until it succeeds. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Every new opinion at its starting is precisely a minority of one. - Thomas Carlysle (1795-1881)

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. - Emerson (1803-1882)

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. - Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. - Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at? - Greville (1554-1628)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

That you may retain your self- respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. - William J.H. Boetcker

Love thy neighbor as thy self, but choose thy neighborhood. - Louise Beal

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. - Hermann Hesse

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. - Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

Reality is something you rise above. - Liza Minnelli

The purpose of life is to fight maturity. - Dick Werthimer

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough for some people. - F.M. Hubbard

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. - Horace Mann (1796-1859)

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. - Francis Bacon

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. - Thomas Jefferson

No person has ever been honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. - Johnson, 1709-1784

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Thoreau, 1817-1862

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Thoreau, 1817-1862

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. - Charles Buxton, 1823-1871