"The necessity of circumstances
proves friends and detects enemies."
Epictetus"I think it's important to get upset about the right things."
Kathy L. Casper"If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
Kahlil Gibran 1883 - 1931"That a man, in the first place, injure no one, and,
in the second, do good to every one he can reach."
Saint Augustine 354 - 429 A.D."Call no man happy before he dies.
He is, at best, but fortunate."
Solon @640 - 570 B.C."Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle."
Michaelangelo 1475-1564"Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine."
Ben Jonson 1573-1637"One cannot see except with the heart;
the essential is invisible to the eyes"
Saint Exupery 1900-1944"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."
John Milton 1608 - 1674"He prayeth well, who loveth well, Both man and bird and beast."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Is all that we see or seem - but a dream within a dream ?.."
Edgar Allen Poe 1809-1849"Only I discern Infinite passion and the pain
of Finite hearts that yearn"
Robert Browning 1812-1889"And 'tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes."
William Wordsworth"Life is just one dang configuration problem after another."
Kathy L. Casper (With apologies to Mark Twain)"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Thomas Jefferson"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country, and to never tolerate their violation by others."
Abraham Lincoln 1838"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...
It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
C.S. Lewis"Always do it right ! This will gratify some people
and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain" There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away..."
Emily Dickinson"To thine own self be true...."
William Skakespeare"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds..."
Albert Einstein"Empowerment ! - It's not just a word, it's a BUZZ word."
Lou Rose