MONEY IS A BLESSING THAT IS OF NO ADVANTAGE TO US EXCEPTING WHEN WE PART WITH IT.$Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
I AM INDEED RICH SINCE MY INCOME IS SUPERIOR TO MY EXPENSES, AND MY EXPENSE IS EQUAL TO MY WISHES.$Edward Gibbon, “Memoirs”
THERE ARE FEW WAYS IN WHICH A MAN CAN BE MORE INNOCENTLY EMPLOYED THAN IN GETTING MONEY.$Samuel Johnson, letter to William Strahan, 1775
WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU THAT HE GOT RICH THROUGH HARD WORK, ASK HIM: “WHOSE?”$Don Marquis, quoted by Edward Anthony in “O Rare Don Marquis”
A FULL POCKETBOOK OFTEN GROANS MORE LOUDLY THAN AN EMPTY STOMACH.$Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech, 1940
THE UNIVERSAL REGARD FOR MONEY IS THE ONE HOPEFUL FACT IN OUR CIVILIZATION.$George Bernard Shaw, “Major Barbara”
THERE ARE FEW SORROWS, HOWEVER POIGNANT, IN WHICH A GOOD INCOME IS OF NO AVAIL.$Logal Pearsall Smith, “Afterthoughts”
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING WE CAN EXPERIENCE IS THE MYSTERIOUS. IT IS THE SOURCE OF ALL TRUE ART AND SCIENCE.$Albert Einstein, “What I Believe”
WHATEVER NATURE HAS IN STORE FOR MANKIND, UNPLEASANT AS IT MAY BE, MEN MUST ACCEPT, FOR IGNORANCE IS NEVER BETTER THAN KNOWLEDGE.$Enrico Fermi, quoted by Laura Fermi in “Atoms in the Family”
THOUGH YOU DRIVE AWAY NATURE WITH A PITCHFORK, SHE ALWAYS RETURNS.$Horace, “Epistles”
THE ROARING OF THE WIND IS MY WIFE AND THE STARTS THROUGH THE WINDOW PANE ARE MY CHILDREN.$John Keats, letter, 1818
I DEMONSTRATE BY MEANS OF PHILOSOPHY THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND, AND IS INHABITED ON ALL SIDES; THAT IT IS INSIGNIFICANTLY SMALL, AND IS BORNE THROUGH THE STARS.$Johannes Kepler, “Astronomia nova”
THE DOG WAS CREATED ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN. HE IS THE GOD OF FROLIC.$Henry Ward Beecher, “Proberbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
AN ANIMAL'S EYES HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK A GREAT LANGUAGE.$Martin Buber, “I and Thou”
THE GREATEST PLEASURE OF A DOG IS THAT YOU MAY MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF WITH HIM AND NOT ONLY WILL HE NOT SCOLD YOU, BUT HE WILL MAKE A FOOL OF HIMSELF, TOO.$Samuel Butler, “Higgledy-Piggledy”
ANIMALS ARE SUCH AGREEABLE FRIENDS - THEY ASK NO QUESTIONS, THEY PASS NO CRITICISMS.$George Eliot, “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story”
WHEN I PLAY WITH MY CAT, WHO KNOWS WHETHER SHE IS NOT AMUSING HERSELF WITH ME MORE THAN I WITH HER.$Montaigne, “Essays”
IF A DOG JUMPS IN YOUR LAP, IT IS BECAUSE HE IS FOND OF YOU; BUT IF A CAT DOES THE SAME THING, IT IS BECAUSE YOUR LAP IS WARMER.$Alfred North Whitehead, “Dialogues”
THE BEST THING ABOUT ANIMALS IS THAT THEY DON'T TALK MUCH.$Thornton Wilder, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
NATURE GOES HER OWN WAY, AND ALL THAT TO US SEEMS AN EXCEPTION IS REALLY ACCORDING TO ORDER.$Goethe, quoted by Johann Peter Eckermann in “Conversations with Goethe”
THERE IS MATERIAL ENOUGH IN A SINGLE FLOWER FOR THE ORNAMENT OF A SCORE OF CATHEDRALS.$John Ruskin, “Stones of Venice”
THE HEAVENS CALL TO YOU, AND CIRCLE AROUND YOU, DISPLAYING TO YOU THEIR ETERNAL SPLENDORS, AND YOUR EYE GAZES ONLY TO EARTH.$Dante, “Purgatorio”
A MAN IS A SMALL THING, AND THE NIGHT IS VERY LARGE AND FULL OF WONDERS.$Lord Dunsany, “The Laughter of the Gods”
THE SEA NEVER CHANGES AND ITS WORKS, FOR ALL THE TALK OF MEN, ARE WRAPPED IN MYSTERY.$Joseph Conrad, “Typhoon”
NEVER TRUST HER AT ANY TIME, WHEN THE CALM SEA SHOWS HER FALSE ALLURING SMILE.$Lucretius, “De rerum natura”
“SUMMER AFTERNOON” - TO ME THOSE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE TWO MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.$Henry James, quoted by Edith Wharton in “A Backward Glance”
EACH DAY IS A LITTLE LIFE; EVERY WAKING AND RISING A LITTLE BIRTH; EVERY FRESH MORNING A LITTLE YOUTH; EVERY GOING TO REST AND SLEEP A LITTLE DEATH.$Arthur Schopenhauer, “Our Relation to Ourselves”
A CLOUDY DAY, OR A LITTLE SUNSHINE HAVE AS GREAT AN INFLUENCE ON MANY CONSTITUTIONS AS THE MOST REAL BLESSINGS OR MISFORTUNES.$Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, ONLY DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOOD WEATHER.$John Ruskin, attributed
THANK HEAVEN, THE SUN HAS GONE IN, AND I DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND ENJOY IT.$Logan Pearsall Smith, “Last Words”
HE THAT WILL NOT APPLY NEW REMEDIES MUST EXPECT NEW EVILS; FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR.$Francis Bacon, “Of Innovations”
NEW OPINIONS ARE ALWAYS SUSPECTED, AND USUALLY OPPOSED, WITHOUT ANY OTHER REASON BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ALREADY COMMON.$John Locke, “Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
MAGIC IS DETESTABLE, VAIN AND IDLE, THOUGH IT HAS WHAT I MIGHT CALL SHADOWS OF TRUTH.$Pliny, “Natural History”
THE OPTIMIST PROCLAIMS THAT WE LIVE IN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS; AND THE PESSIMIST FEARS THIS IS TRUE.$James Branch Cabell, “The Silver Stallion”
MAN LIVES FREELY ONLY BY HIS READINESS TO DIE, IF NEED BE, AT THE HANDS OF HIS BROTHER, NEVER BY KILLING HIM.$Mohandas K. Gandhi, attributed
THE JOYS OF PARENTS ARE SECRET, AND SO ARE THEIR GRIEFS AND FEARS: THEY CANNOT UTTER THE ONE, NOR WILL THEY UTTER THE OTHER.$Francis Bacon, “Of Parents and Children”
WHAT THE MOTHER SINGS TO THE CRADLE GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE COFFIN.$Henry Ward Beecher, “Probers from Plymouth Pulpit”
TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.$Bible, “Proverbs”
HE THAT WILL HAVE HIS SON HAVE RESPECT FOR HIM AND HIS ORDERS, MUST HIMSELF HAVE A GREAT REVERENCE FOR HIS SON.$John Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”
I HAVE FOUND THE BEST WAY TO GIVE ADVICE TO YOUR CHILDREN IS TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY WANT AND THEN ADVISE THEM TO DO IT.$Harry S. Truman, television interview, 1955
ALL WOMEN BECOME LIKE THEIR MOTHERS. THAT IS THEIR TRAGEDY. NO MAN DOES. THAT'S HIS.$Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”
OF ONE POWER EVEN GOD IS DEPRIVED, AND THAT IS THE POWER OF MAKING WHAT IS PAST NEVER TO HAVE BEEN.$Agathon, quoted by Aristotle in “The Nicomachean Ethics”
WE LIVE IN REFERENCE TO PAST EXPERIENCE AND NOT TO FUTURE EVENTS, HOWEVER INEVITABLE.$H. G. Wells, “Mind at the End of Its Tether”
SIT ON THE BANK OF A RIVER AND WAIT; YOUR ENEMY'S CORPSE WILL SOON FLOAT BY.$Indian proverb
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SO BLIND WITH PATRIOTISM THAT YOU CAN'T FACE REALITY. WRONG IS WRONG NO MATTER WHO DOES IT OR WHO SAYS IT.$Malcolm X, “Malcolm X Speaks Out”
PATRIOTISM IS A KIND OF RELIGION; IT IS THE EGG FROM WHICH WARS ARE HATCHED.$Guy de Maupassant, “My Uncle Sosthenes”
PEACE CANNOT BE KEPT BY FORCE. IT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY UNDERSTANDING.$Albert Einstein, “Notes on Pacifism”
FIRST KEEP PEACE WITHIN YOURSELF, THEN YOU CAN ALSO BRING PEACE TO OTHERS.$Thomas à Kempis, “Imitation of Christ”
IT ISN'T ENOUGH TO TALK ABOUT PEACE. ONE MUST BELIEVE IN IT. AND IT ISN'T ENOUGH TO BELIEVE IN IT. ONE MUST WORK AT IT.$Eleanor Roosevelt, speech, 1951
THE PEOPLE ARE THE ONLY SURE RELIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OUR LIBERTY.$Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 1787
