02/28/19

Someday is not a day of the week. -Janet Dailey

02/27/19

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll

02/26/19

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them. -Cesare Beccaria

02/25/19

If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. -Samuel Adams

02/22/19

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. -Marcus Aurelius

02/21/19

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into all kinds of trouble. -Samuel Butler

02/20/19

The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are. -Chris Crutcher

02/19/19

The soul is healed by being with children. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

02/18/19

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln

02/15/19

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus

02/14/19

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. -Joseph Joubert

02/13/19

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. -Robert Fulghum

02/12/19

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. -Edgar Guest

02/11/19

Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. -Thomas Henry Huxley

02/08/19

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

02/07/19

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -John Locke

02/06/19

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. -Christopher Morley

02/05/19

If wisdom's way you wisely seek,

Five things observe with care,

To whom you speak,

Of whom you speak,

And how, and when, and where.  -William Norris

02/04/19

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator. -Marcel Proust

02/01/19

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. -Bertrand Russell