My Favorite Quotes

* Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein

* Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon. ~ Aristotle

* Education is the best provision for the journey to old age ~ Aristotle

* Law is mind without reason. ~ Aristotle

* I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. ~ Ernesto Che Guevara

* I would rather die standing up, than live life on my knees ~ Ernesto Che Guevara

* Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~ Confucius

* I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. ~ Confucius

* I believe in God, only I spell it N-a-t-u-r-e. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

* In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process. ~ Gerald Ford

* History has shown that what might at one time be considered occult may eventually become science. ~ Gwydion

* I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man’s eyes than his own country. ~ Homer

* Every virtue is but halfway between two vices. ~ Latin Motto

* Sweet is sleep to me, and even more to be of stone.
While the wrong and shame endure,
To be without sight or sense
Is a most happy change for me.
Therefore do not rouse me, hush; speak low.
~ Michelangelo

* If you take the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible is the wind and the rain. ~ Native American Medicine Woman

* The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
   But I have promises to keep,
   And miles to go before I sleep.
~ Robert Frost

* The Spirit has its homeland, which is the realm of the meaning of things. ~ Saint Exupery

* It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. ~ Shakyamuni Buddha

* If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,
  And have a flower presented to him
  As a pledge that his soul had really been there,
  And if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke—
  Aye, and what then?
~ S. T. Coolridge

* Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. ~ Unknown Author

* Flee in to some forgotten night and be,
  Of all dark long my moon-bright company;
  Beyond the rumor even of Paradise come,
  There, out of all remembrance, make our home.
~ Walter De La Mare

* The sky is darkening like a stain,
   Something is going to fall like rain
   And it won’t be flowers
~ W. H. Auden