In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC),

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990),

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC),

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001),

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

There are two ways to shine...you can be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

Confucious

"The definition of a 'statesman' is a retired politician. What this country needs is more statesmen."

Will Rogers

"THERE IS NO FUTURE FOR A PEOPLE

WHO DENY THEIR PAST"

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR.

US CONGRESSMAN

"THE SIMPLEST TRUTHS

OFTEN MEET THE STERNEST

RESISTANCE AND ARE SLOWEST

IN GETTING GENERAL ACCEPTANCE"

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
ABOLITIONIST & ORATOR

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)

"I DON' KNOW THE KEY TO
SUCCESS,BUT THE KEY
TO FAILURE IS TRYING TO
PLEASE EVERYBODY."

BILL COSBY
ENTERTAINER

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

"I DON'T LET MY MOUTH
SAY NOTHIN'
MY HEAD CAN'T STAND."

LOUIS ARMSTRONG
MUSICIAN

"..... DON'T PRAY

WHEN IT RAINS

IF YOU DON'T PRAY

WHEN THE SUN SHINES".

LEROY (SATCHELL) PAIGE
PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER

"LISTEN OR YOUR TONGUE WILL KEEP YOU DEAF"

AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as
Michelangelo painted,or Beethoven composed
music,or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep so well that all the host of
heaven and earth will pause to say,'Here lived
a great street sweeper who did his job well'."

Dr. Martin Luther King

"Anyone who has ever struggled with
poverty knows how extremely
expensive it is to be poor."

James Baldwin

Novelist

"Curiosity killed the cat. But for a while, I was a suspect."

Steven Wright