Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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Daniel Considine

To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.

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Anon.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

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Hippocrates

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

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Salvador Dali

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

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Woody Allen

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

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Stanislaw Lec

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

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David Grayson

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day

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Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

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Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.

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George Washington Carver

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

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