Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the N

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Madame Swetchine

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

William Osler

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Jim Wallis

Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Yiddish Proverb

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi

An arch never sleeps.

Proverb

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

Noam Chomsky

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Josh Billings

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

Bob Dylan

I know how to use a fellytone now.

J.K. Rowling