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- Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
- Russell R. McIntyre
- He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
- Charles Buxton
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - )
- When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
- Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
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