share quotes

“Endure, and preserve yourself for better things.”

” A person with a conviction is a hard thing to change. Tell them you disagree, they turn away. Show them the facts, and they argue your sources. Appeal to logic and they fail to see your point.”
Psychologist Leon Festinger

Many small people, who in many small places, do many small things can alter the face of the world.

Graffiti on the Berlin Wall.

” The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs”
1790

“He who deals truly with himself and renouncing all willfulness, acts after his clearest sight, can never repent his action.”

“Learn to estimate great characters, not by the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.”

“Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they may discourse like angels, but they live like men”
Samuel Johnson.

“A foolish king destroys both himself and his people”

” Nothing vicious is noble”
POPE PIUS II
“It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars having given away,the house falls in ruins,”
JUVENAL

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic, fear which is inherent in the human situation.

” Do we want all of are heroes to be so high and mighty that they
s—-t marble?”
W.A. Mozart.
No idea if he actually ever said that, but I like the idea behind it.

” Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”