All things are difficult before they are easy. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
British physician (1654 - 1734) Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. Rudyard Kipling
British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936) Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616) Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing." Sir Arnold Bax, Farewell my Youth (1943)
British composer (1883 - 1953) Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher
US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? Richard Feynman
US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. Homer
Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy" Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, <br> And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Juvenal
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) | 
