The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) Passion governs, and she never governs wisely. Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli
British politician (1804 - 1881) It is what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden
US basketball coach (1910 - ) Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge
US (Danish-born) comedian & pianist (1909 - 2000) I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burrough I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution. Ulysses S. Grant
US general & politician (1822 - 1885) No one ever understood disaster until it came. Josephine Herbst The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -Dante Alighieri The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness. Jean Cocteau
French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 - 1963) | 
