NO GREAT WOMAN has ever become greatly being a good girl.
ISRAEL HOROVITZ
A WISE MAN MAKES HIS OWN DECISIONS. AN IGNORANT MAN FOLLOWS PUBLIC OPINIONS.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance. MACHIAVELLI
WINSTON CHURCHILL 1895-1964 PRIME MINISTER GREAT BRITAIN
SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL, FAILURE IS NOT FATAL: IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS.
DIPLOMACY is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask directions.
I NO LONGER LISTEN to what people say — I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
SOCIALISM is a philosophy of failure — the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy — its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
FEAR IS A REACTION. COURAGE IS A DECISION.
A NATION THAT FORGETS ITS PAST HAS NO FUTURE.
THE POSITIVE THINKER sees the invisible, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
THERE is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.
SUCCESS consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
MARK TWAIN 1835-1910 “HUCKLEBERRY FINN” “TOM SAWYER”
NO AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE WILL EVER PERSUADE AN IDIOT.
POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS MUST BE CHANGED OFTEN & FOR THE SAME REASON.
LIFE IS SHORT. Break the rules. Forgive quickly kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably & never regret anything that makes you smile.
I was educated once — it took me years to get over it.
KINDNESS is the language which the deaf can hear & the blind can see.
GOOD decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
GIVE EVERY DAY the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT IS BETTER THAN DELAYED PERFECTION.
THE TWO most important days in your life are they day you are born & the day you find out why.
HOW EASY it is to make people believe a lie & how hard to undo that work again!
JONATHAN SWIFT 1667-1745–“Gulliver’s Travels” “A Modest Proposal” “A Tale of a Tub” “The Battle of the Book”.
VISION IS THE ART OF SEEING WHAT IS INVISIBLE TO OTHERS.
WHEN true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
MAY YOU LIVE ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
LAWS are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps & hornets break through.
WE have enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
FOR IN REASON all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
POWER is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.
THE BEST doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet & doctor Merryman.
SATIRE is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.