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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill



The wicked often work harder to go to hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. ~Josh Billings



There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain



May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing



I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. ~Noel Coward



Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller



Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~Mark Twain



Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. ~John Muir



Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. ~Russell Baker



Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. ~William Galvin



I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. ~Walt Whitman



Epitaph: an inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there; a brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.



Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~Aldous Huxley



Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ~Ambrose Bierce



In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ~Cicero



I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward Beecher



You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ~James A. Froude



Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ~H.L. Mencken



Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953



It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ~Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents