Deepseated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls., Lucan, Roman epic poet (39 AD 65 AD)
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them., Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, US novelist (1922 )
GotLink.plThe English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it., James Agate,
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest., J. G. Holland,
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary., Thomas Paine, US patriot political philosopher (1737 1809)
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction., John Dewey, US educator, Pragmatist philosopher, psychologist (1859 1952)