Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the centre. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot English novelist (1819 - 1880) If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. Lee Iacocca US automobile businessman (1924 - ) Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes-Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist. Sir Arthur Eddington English astronomer (1882 - 1944) It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 13, Part II US novelist (1902 - 1968) When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it’s magical. Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm. Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003 |