It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. Gioacchino Rosini Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946) Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. Dwight David Eisenhower The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot English novelist (1819 - 1880) Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence. David Steinberg The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job. Ronald Reagan in 1973 |