"Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it." --Ed Wynn
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present." --Fairfield Osborne
"The enemies of the Future are always the very nicest people." --Christopher Murley
"Appearances are deceptive." --Aesop
"Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn." --Sophocles
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." --Aesop
"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." --Galileo Galilei
"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone." --Ernest Hemingway
"An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea." --Leland Stowe
"The highest of distinctions is service to others." --King George VI
"I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power." --David McCord
"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough." --Irwin Shaw
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end." --Adlai Stevenson
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there." --Mark Twain
"I wanna do a better album each time. And if I cannot do that, I will not record." --Celine Dion
"What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books." --Andre Sinyavsky
"Education is not received. It is achieved." --Unknown
"Blest be the tie that binds." --Fawcett
"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." --Ezra Pound
"Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em." --Mary Webb
"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed." --Reinhold Nielbuhr
"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation." --Vannevar Bush
"Obscurity often brings safety." --Aesop
"Longer than deeds liveth the word." --Pindar
"If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye." --Hammurabi
"One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such an one lives no life at all." --Alcaeus
"Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things." --Amelia Earhart Putnam
"Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on." --Anderson H. Scruggs
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." --Aldous Huxley
