Potpourri

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Samuel Eliot Morison

Out of the strain of Doing, into the peace of Done.

Unknown

Old Gaelic Blessing

May those that love us, love us, and those that don't, may God turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.

The proliferation of support groups suggests that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain grandmothers.

"Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye"

Throughout all the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope - a faith in the ultimate justice of things.....that sometime, somewhere, men will judge by their souls and not by their skins. Is such a hope justified? Do the Sorrow Songs sing true?

W.E. B. Du Bois

Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

St. Francis of Assisi

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Jean Kerr

Andre Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamppost- for support rather than for illumination.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Russell Lynes

Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Epictitus

Virginia Cary Hudson

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

My own mind is my own church.

Thomas Paine

Hell is not other people. Hell is no other people.

Fay Weldon

Robert Wagner

As a parent you just hang on for the ride.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

Jonathan Winters

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Channing Pollock

Unknown

The difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary is that little extra.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

Anonymous

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'

Isaac Asimov

Sir Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Unknown

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam. (I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)

Traditional

Groucho Marx

I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it.

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Mother Teresa

 

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