“I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough.”
– Mark Twain, humorist and writer
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president
What The Founding Fathers Said
Words meant to protect all of us.
"If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments … the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington, first US president
"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place
"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
-Washington Irving
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes, art critic.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
–Malachy McCourt, Irish-American actor, writer and politician
"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."
–Margaret Mead, American anthropologist
In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
–Eric Hoffer, American social writer
Think About It
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." –Corrie ten Boom, Dutch writer