THE PEOPLE ARE THE ONLY SURE RELIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OUR LIBERTY.$Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 1787
IT ISN'T ENOUGH TO TALK ABOUT PEACE. ONE MUST BELIEVE IN IT. AND IT ISN'T ENOUGH TO BELIEVE IN IT. ONE MUST WORK AT IT.$Eleanor Roosevelt, speech, 1951
FIRST KEEP PEACE WITHIN YOURSELF, THEN YOU CAN ALSO BRING PEACE TO OTHERS.$Thomas à Kempis, “Imitation of Christ”
PEACE CANNOT BE KEPT BY FORCE. IT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY UNDERSTANDING.$Albert Einstein, “Notes on Pacifism”
PATRIOTISM IS A KIND OF RELIGION; IT IS THE EGG FROM WHICH WARS ARE HATCHED.$Guy de Maupassant, “My Uncle Sosthenes”
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SO BLIND WITH PATRIOTISM THAT YOU CAN'T FACE REALITY. WRONG IS WRONG NO MATTER WHO DOES IT OR WHO SAYS IT.$Malcolm X, “Malcolm X Speaks Out”
SIT ON THE BANK OF A RIVER AND WAIT; YOUR ENEMY'S CORPSE WILL SOON FLOAT BY.$Indian proverb
WE LIVE IN REFERENCE TO PAST EXPERIENCE AND NOT TO FUTURE EVENTS, HOWEVER INEVITABLE.$H. G. Wells, “Mind at the End of Its Tether”
OF ONE POWER EVEN GOD IS DEPRIVED, AND THAT IS THE POWER OF MAKING WHAT IS PAST NEVER TO HAVE BEEN.$Agathon, quoted by Aristotle in “The Nicomachean Ethics”
ALL WOMEN BECOME LIKE THEIR MOTHERS. THAT IS THEIR TRAGEDY. NO MAN DOES. THAT'S HIS.$Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”
I HAVE FOUND THE BEST WAY TO GIVE ADVICE TO YOUR CHILDREN IS TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY WANT AND THEN ADVISE THEM TO DO IT.$Harry S. Truman, television interview, 1955
HE THAT WILL HAVE HIS SON HAVE RESPECT FOR HIM AND HIS ORDERS, MUST HIMSELF HAVE A GREAT REVERENCE FOR HIS SON.$John Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”
TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.$Bible, “Proverbs”
WHAT THE MOTHER SINGS TO THE CRADLE GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE COFFIN.$Henry Ward Beecher, “Probers from Plymouth Pulpit”
THE JOYS OF PARENTS ARE SECRET, AND SO ARE THEIR GRIEFS AND FEARS: THEY CANNOT UTTER THE ONE, NOR WILL THEY UTTER THE OTHER.$Francis Bacon, “Of Parents and Children”
MAN LIVES FREELY ONLY BY HIS READINESS TO DIE, IF NEED BE, AT THE HANDS OF HIS BROTHER, NEVER BY KILLING HIM.$Mohandas K. Gandhi, attributed
THE OPTIMIST PROCLAIMS THAT WE LIVE IN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS; AND THE PESSIMIST FEARS THIS IS TRUE.$James Branch Cabell, “The Silver Stallion”
MAGIC IS DETESTABLE, VAIN AND IDLE, THOUGH IT HAS WHAT I MIGHT CALL SHADOWS OF TRUTH.$Pliny, “Natural History”
NEW OPINIONS ARE ALWAYS SUSPECTED, AND USUALLY OPPOSED, WITHOUT ANY OTHER REASON BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ALREADY COMMON.$John Locke, “Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
HE THAT WILL NOT APPLY NEW REMEDIES MUST EXPECT NEW EVILS; FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR.$Francis Bacon, “Of Innovations”
THANK HEAVEN, THE SUN HAS GONE IN, AND I DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND ENJOY IT.$Logan Pearsall Smith, “Last Words”
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, ONLY DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOOD WEATHER.$John Ruskin, attributed
A CLOUDY DAY, OR A LITTLE SUNSHINE HAVE AS GREAT AN INFLUENCE ON MANY CONSTITUTIONS AS THE MOST REAL BLESSINGS OR MISFORTUNES.$Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”
EACH DAY IS A LITTLE LIFE; EVERY WAKING AND RISING A LITTLE BIRTH; EVERY FRESH MORNING A LITTLE YOUTH; EVERY GOING TO REST AND SLEEP A LITTLE DEATH.$Arthur Schopenhauer, “Our Relation to Ourselves”
“SUMMER AFTERNOON” - TO ME THOSE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE TWO MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.$Henry James, quoted by Edith Wharton in “A Backward Glance”
NEVER TRUST HER AT ANY TIME, WHEN THE CALM SEA SHOWS HER FALSE ALLURING SMILE.$Lucretius, “De rerum natura”
THE SEA NEVER CHANGES AND ITS WORKS, FOR ALL THE TALK OF MEN, ARE WRAPPED IN MYSTERY.$Joseph Conrad, “Typhoon”
A MAN IS A SMALL THING, AND THE NIGHT IS VERY LARGE AND FULL OF WONDERS.$Lord Dunsany, “The Laughter of the Gods”
THE HEAVENS CALL TO YOU, AND CIRCLE AROUND YOU, DISPLAYING TO YOU THEIR ETERNAL SPLENDORS, AND YOUR EYE GAZES ONLY TO EARTH.$Dante, “Purgatorio”
THERE IS MATERIAL ENOUGH IN A SINGLE FLOWER FOR THE ORNAMENT OF A SCORE OF CATHEDRALS.$John Ruskin, “Stones of Venice”
NATURE GOES HER OWN WAY, AND ALL THAT TO US SEEMS AN EXCEPTION IS REALLY ACCORDING TO ORDER.$Goethe, quoted by Johann Peter Eckermann in “Conversations with Goethe”
THE BEST THING ABOUT ANIMALS IS THAT THEY DON'T TALK MUCH.$Thornton Wilder, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
IF A DOG JUMPS IN YOUR LAP, IT IS BECAUSE HE IS FOND OF YOU; BUT IF A CAT DOES THE SAME THING, IT IS BECAUSE YOUR LAP IS WARMER.$Alfred North Whitehead, “Dialogues”
WHEN I PLAY WITH MY CAT, WHO KNOWS WHETHER SHE IS NOT AMUSING HERSELF WITH ME MORE THAN I WITH HER.$Montaigne, “Essays”
ANIMALS ARE SUCH AGREEABLE FRIENDS - THEY ASK NO QUESTIONS, THEY PASS NO CRITICISMS.$George Eliot, “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story”
THE GREATEST PLEASURE OF A DOG IS THAT YOU MAY MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF WITH HIM AND NOT ONLY WILL HE NOT SCOLD YOU, BUT HE WILL MAKE A FOOL OF HIMSELF, TOO.$Samuel Butler, “Higgledy-Piggledy”
AN ANIMAL'S EYES HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK A GREAT LANGUAGE.$Martin Buber, “I and Thou”
THE DOG WAS CREATED ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN. HE IS THE GOD OF FROLIC.$Henry Ward Beecher, “Proberbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
I DEMONSTRATE BY MEANS OF PHILOSOPHY THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND, AND IS INHABITED ON ALL SIDES; THAT IT IS INSIGNIFICANTLY SMALL, AND IS BORNE THROUGH THE STARS.$Johannes Kepler, “Astronomia nova”
THE ROARING OF THE WIND IS MY WIFE AND THE STARTS THROUGH THE WINDOW PANE ARE MY CHILDREN.$John Keats, letter, 1818
THOUGH YOU DRIVE AWAY NATURE WITH A PITCHFORK, SHE ALWAYS RETURNS.$Horace, “Epistles”
WHATEVER NATURE HAS IN STORE FOR MANKIND, UNPLEASANT AS IT MAY BE, MEN MUST ACCEPT, FOR IGNORANCE IS NEVER BETTER THAN KNOWLEDGE.$Enrico Fermi, quoted by Laura Fermi in “Atoms in the Family”
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING WE CAN EXPERIENCE IS THE MYSTERIOUS. IT IS THE SOURCE OF ALL TRUE ART AND SCIENCE.$Albert Einstein, “What I Believe”
THERE ARE FEW SORROWS, HOWEVER POIGNANT, IN WHICH A GOOD INCOME IS OF NO AVAIL.$Logal Pearsall Smith, “Afterthoughts”
THE UNIVERSAL REGARD FOR MONEY IS THE ONE HOPEFUL FACT IN OUR CIVILIZATION.$George Bernard Shaw, “Major Barbara”
A FULL POCKETBOOK OFTEN GROANS MORE LOUDLY THAN AN EMPTY STOMACH.$Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech, 1940
WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU THAT HE GOT RICH THROUGH HARD WORK, ASK HIM: “WHOSE?”$Don Marquis, quoted by Edward Anthony in “O Rare Don Marquis”
THERE ARE FEW WAYS IN WHICH A MAN CAN BE MORE INNOCENTLY EMPLOYED THAN IN GETTING MONEY.$Samuel Johnson, letter to William Strahan, 1775
I AM INDEED RICH SINCE MY INCOME IS SUPERIOR TO MY EXPENSES, AND MY EXPENSE IS EQUAL TO MY WISHES.$Edward Gibbon, “Memoirs”
MONEY IS A BLESSING THAT IS OF NO ADVANTAGE TO US EXCEPTING WHEN WE PART WITH IT.$Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
