The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin
US author (1924 - 1987) About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings
US Humorist (1818 - 1885) Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr.
US chewing gum industrialist (1861 - 1932) Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. Amos Bronson Alcott
US educator & Transcendentalist (1799 - 1888) Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. Edgar Watson Howe
US journalist (1853 - 1937) Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards. Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948) | 
