What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799) Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley
US author & journalist (1890 - 1957) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner
US psychologist (1904 - 1990) No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. Harold Rosenberg It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre Beaumarchais
French businessman & comic dramatist (1732 - 1799) Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days. Berta Buxton I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple Black | 
