"Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it ever becomes an error of the understanding." - Plato =============== "The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth." - Pliny, The Elder ========= "One small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind." - Armstrong, Neil ============= "Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child?" - Norton, Caroline ============ "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." - Einstein, Alfred ========= "Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder." - Zimmerman, Johann ========= "There should be as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty, as a man for his prosperity, both being equally subject to change." - Pope, Alexander ========= "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." - Franklin, Benjamin =========== "Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe." - Demosthenes ============== "He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head or a very short creed." - Colton, Caleb =========== "Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures." - Cicero ======== "To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature." - Smith, Adam ========= "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Beecher, Henry Ward ========= "Render therefore unto Ceasar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." - Jesus of Nazareth ========= "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." - Proverbs, Old Testament ========= "When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything" - Wesley, John ========= "Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate." - Shakespeare ========= "Ninety percent of everything is crap." - Sturgeon, Theodore ========= "Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses." - Theophrastus ========= "The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." - Franklin, Benjamin ========= "A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind." - Shakespeare ========= "Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters." - Shakespeare ========= "They never fail who die in a great cause." - Byron ======== "All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word of faith." - Napoleon ======== "Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." - Hodge, A. A. ======= "There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God, and freewill, and immortality arise." - Kant, Immanuel ======= "Faith is like love: it cannot be forced. As trying to force love begets hatred, so trying to compel religious belief leads to unbelief." - Schopenhauer, Arthur ======= "A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those whose wish is to believe it." - Rice, Elliot. W. ======= "He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one." - Pope, Alexander ======= "Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves." - Webster, Daniel ======= "This above all, to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." - Shakespeare ======= "Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds." - Socrates ======= "Even the best things are not equal to their fame." - Thoreau, Henry David ======= "What a heavy burden is a name that has too soon become famous." - Voltaire "I would much rather posterity ask why no statues were erected for me, than why they were." - Cato, Marcus ======= "Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and superstition, the father of intolerance and persecution." - Fletcher, Horace ======= "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religously the new." - Thoreau, Henry David ======= "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we will." - Shakespeare ======= "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." - Jesus of Nazareth ======= "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon ======= "No man loves the man whom he fears." - Aristotle ======= "Scepticism is slow suicide." - Emerson, Ralph W. ======= "Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians." - Wells, H. G. ======= "God does not play dice with the universe." - Einstein, Albert ======= "God not only plays dice with the universe, he sometimes throws them where we can't see them." - Heisenberg, Werner ======= "A good, contented, well-breakfasted juryman is a capital thing to get hold of. Discontented jurymen always find for the plaintiff." - Dickens, Charles ======= "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, that government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Lincoln, Abraham ======= "That government is best which governs least." - Jefferson, Thomas ======= "It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws." - Aristotle ======= "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - Jefferson, Thomas ======= "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." - Hale, Nathan ======= "When any of the four pillars of government, religion, justice, counsel, and treasure, are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather." - Bacon, Francis ======= "There are no atheists in foxholes." - Anonymous ======= "It's not the people you fire that hurt you, it's the people you don't." - Mackay, John ======= "Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined." - Pope, Alexander ======= "The mother of useful art, is necessity; that of the fine arts, is luxury. The former have intellect for their father; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." - Schopenhauer, Arthur ======= "The wise man contemplates fate, but does not depend on it." - Anonymous ======= "Let us so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'" - Churchill, Sir Winston ======= "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, is like a villain with a smiling cheek; a goodly apple rotten at the heart." - Shakespeare ======= "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Lincoln, Abraham ======= "Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession." - Emerson, Ralph W. ======= "I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. " - Oppenheimer, Robert ======= "Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used is always bright." - Franklin, Benjamin ======= "It is strange but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction." - Byron ======= "Ye stars, that are the poetry of heaven!" - Byron ======= "In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind, but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them." - Walpole, Sir Robert