We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. ~Jack Benny
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ~James Branch Cabell
It isn't the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ~Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? ~Walter Scott
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes. ~Roger Angell
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. ~Vachel Lindsay
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. ~Sue Lawley, 1985
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ~John Peel
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. ~Rose Maccaulay
There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out. ~Tom Masson
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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? ~Mason Cooley
Have a very good reason for everything you do. ~Laurence Olivier Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. ~Rita Rudner Have cognition before ignition. ~Author Unknown
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ~Paul Valery
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words. ~Laurence Sterne
Envy is a waste of time. ~Author Unknown
