Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields US actor (1880 - 1946) The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. E. J. Phelps If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Sir Francis Bacon English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Boris Pasternak The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott, Economist (1926 - ) I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish author (1850 - 1894) God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. J. M. Barrie, British Playwright |