In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. Benjamin Franklin

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. Arthur Ward

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

I note with curiosity that when an average citizen commits a felony it usually leads to a prison sentence. Yet, apparently, when a big oil company commits a felony that causes 15 deaths, it pays a criminal penalty equal to less than a day's corporate profits, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) 10/07

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George Carlin

We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Benard Shaw

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Groucho Marx

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Bible, 1 Peter iv. 8.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. H.L. Mencken

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. Confucius

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. Will Rogers

Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Winston Churchill

I think we agree, the past is over. George W. Bush

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. Cicero