Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were... "
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

"While there's life, there's hope."
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.

"A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.

"Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)