quotes on the wall

Science does not know its debt to imagination. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Author Unknown


The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. ~Alexis de Tocqueville


Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha


Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~Marcelene Cox


A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. ~Joseph Epstein


Born to golf. Forced to work. ~Author Unknown


The really nice breezes blow through my body and into my soul. ~Astrid Alauda


Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. ~E.A. Storrs


This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. ~Herbert J. Muller


Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. ~Bill Gates


It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~Aeschylus


The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch


As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie


Passim: notation for everywhere, in many places; indicates that there are so many references that the list would be too long.


Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau


The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ~Don Marquis


Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson