The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways.

J. Mccabe

PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seemsThe bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.

Sir Walter Raleigh, The Silent L

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

B. C. Forbes

Our love is old, our lives are old, And death shall come amain; Should it come today, what man may say We shall not live again?

Langdon Smith

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

By guts I mean, grace under pressure

Ernest Hemingway

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Betty Grable

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Chris Christie

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Philip Pullman

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean Jacques Rousseau