Thoughts from Way Back

"It's not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence." - Agnes Repplier, American writer and social critic (1858-1950).

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou, poet.

"He who will not reason is a bigot, he who cannot is a fool, and he who dares not is a slave." - William Drummond, Scottish writer (1585-1649).

"One today is worth two tomorrows." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).

"It's only believers in the Fall of Man who can really appreciate how funny men are." - Malcolm Muggeridge, British author (1903-1990).

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." - Victor Hugo, French writer (1802-1885).

"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, until it does that, it hardly is experience." - Elizabeth Bowen, author (1899-1973).

"Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want." - Irving Kristol, American editor.

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - Sir James Barrie, dramatist (1860-1937).

"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher (1861-1947).

"Ninety percent of the game is half mental." - Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer.

"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest." - Laurence Sterne, English author (1713-1768).

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." Adm. Hyman Rickover, America's nuclear navy (1900-1986).

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." - Peter De Vries, author.

"What experience and history teach is this: People and governments have never learned anything from history." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (1770-1831).

"Prophecy is the wit of a fool." - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born author (1899-1977).

"Success is a journey, not a destination." - Anonymous.

"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." - Sydney Harris, American journalist (1917-1986).

"There's no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." - Michel de Montaigne, philosopher (1533-1592).

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason." - C.S. Lewis, English author (1898-1963).

"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information." - John Erskine, American author and educator

"Anyone Without a Sense of Humor Is At The Mercy of The Rest of Us."

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."

"A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking."

"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action." - Adlai Stevenson, United Nations ambassador (1900-1965).

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." - Livy, Roman historian (64 B.C.-17)

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