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Suzanne Lafollette

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them. Suzanne Lafollette quotes

Thomas P. Westendorf

To that dear home beyond the sea, My Kathleen shall again return, And when thy old friends welcome thee, Thy loving heart will cease to …

Jack Layton

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. …

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. -Francis Bacon

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. -Robert Hewison

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. -Kin Hubbard

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. -Llewelyn Powys

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice. -Samuel Johnson

Maredith Close

“There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.” Maredith Close quotes

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. -Spanish Proverb

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. -Ogden Nash

J. C. Hare

Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for …

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. -Walter Benjamin

TV is a fickle business. I’m only good for the length of my contract. -Tom Brokaw

"Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes" – Jan Masaryk

“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes” – Jan Masaryk

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. -Zig Ziglar

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." – William Shakespeare

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.” – William Shakespeare

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace? -Michael Holmboe Meyer

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. -Guy Bellamy

Too aim is not enough, you must hit! -German Proverb

Gilbert Adair

The earth is mankind’s ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it’s as though one of God’s …

No furniture is so charming as books. -Sydney Smith

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw

He who is near the Church is often far from God. -French Proverb

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. -Lord Alfred Tennyson

Love darts Cleave hearts Through mail shirts. -Walter Scott

Los Angeles Times

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. Los Angeles Times quotes

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. -Gerald F. Lieberman

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. -George Bernard Shaw

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. -Linus Pauling

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. -Miguel De Unamuno

Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. -William Hazlitt

"Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness" – Samuel Butler

“Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness” – Samuel Butler

W. E. B. DuBois

“A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights …

"The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer" – Will Rogers

“The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer” – Will Rogers

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