One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us., Michael Cibenko,
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary., H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 1956)
GotLink.plThe universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession., Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit., W. Somerset Maugham, English dramatist novelist (1874 1965)
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato the best part under ground., Thomas Overbury, English courtier poet (1581 1613)
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)