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*************ICON****************************************** 1 "The world is comic to those who think and tragic to those who feel" -Horace Walpole*****IF YOU ARE LOGGING IN GIVE ME A SEC TO ANSWER ALL MSG'S SOMETIMES IT TAKES ME AWHILE. THANK YOU :) The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. -Confucius All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. -Aristotle A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. -Sir Winston Churchill Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. -Aristotle History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -Sir Winston Churchill Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. -Albert Einstein From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. -Sir Winston Churchill The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein GoldenBilli Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein BilliRed Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -Aristotle No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. -Friedrich Nietzsche It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! -Friedrich Nietzsche I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -Albert Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -Albert Einstein All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -Aristotle Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. -Aristotle Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. Aristotle To perceive is to suffer. -Aristotle A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Sir Winston Churchill It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -Henry David Thoreau Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. -Henry David Thoreau Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. -Mark Twain **************** Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. -Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -Oscar Wilde A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius is born--not paid. -Oscar Wilde I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. -Oscar Wilde All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -Ralph Waldo Emerson **************** Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall com back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Benjamin Franklin I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. -Oscar Wilde It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde ************** Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. -Oscar Wilde **************** I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. -Jane Austen **************** Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? -Jane Austen ******************* Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. -Jane Austen, Mansfield Park ******************** I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. -Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.