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- In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
- Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
- The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
- Doug Larson
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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