You cannot believe everything you hear

One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion.

Adolf Freiherr Knigge

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

Mark Twain, Chapters from My Aut

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Phyllis Diller

Exercise: you don't have time not to.

Source Unknown

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Charlotte Bunch

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Buchan

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

Richard L Torres

When the critics come around it's always too late.

Sir Sidney Nolan

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.

A Gentlemen

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Richard M. Rorty

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin