We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Speech on the sub-Treasury, December 26, 1839 You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experie...

Nothings better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you. Aaron Douglas Trimble I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invente...

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare mini...

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling1 in it. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992 Today, the th...

Evil brings men together. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), (attributed) Evil draws men together. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric1 We must as second best...take the least of the evils. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics2 The...

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy1. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devils Dictionary Thats the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. Barb...

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors1 in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), Black Power: A Form of Godly Power, 1967 Before God we...

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril1... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988 I am the Lorax, and Ill yell and Ill shout for the fin...

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938) The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary. Dave Kellett, Sheld...

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964), Hostage (1958) England and America are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) The English have no respect for their...