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padding: 5px 10px; text-decoration: none; width: 90%;"&gt;ചായില്യത്തില്‍ &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bji7rL" target="_blank"&gt;ജിമെയില്‍ html സിഗ്‌നേച്ചര്‍&lt;/a&gt; പോസ്റ്റുചെയ്തതിനു ശേഷം ആ കോഡു കണ്ടിട്ട് ഒന്നും മനസിലാവുന്നില്ലെന്നും എവിടെയാണ്‌ തിരുത്തല്‍‌ വരുത്തേണ്ടതെന്നു അറിയില്ലെന്നും പറഞ്ഞ് ചില മെയിലുകള്‍ കിട്ടുകയുണ്ടായി. അതുകൊണ്ട് കോഡില്‍ വരുത്തേണ്ട തിരുത്തലുകള്‍ അല്പം കൂടി വിശദമായി തന്നെ കൊടുക്കുന്നു. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bji7rL" target="_blank"&gt;അവിടെ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന ആ കോഡ് &lt;/a&gt;ഞാനിവിടെ എടുത്തെഴുതുന്നു. ഇതില്‍ ഓരോ പ്രൊഫൈല്‍ ലിങ്കും പ്രത്യേകമായി കൊടുത്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. കൂടാതെ തിരുത്തല്‍ വരുത്തേണ്ട ഭാഗങ്ങള്‍ &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;ചുവന്ന അക്ഷരത്തില്‍&lt;/span&gt; കാണിച്ചതും ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക. നിങ്ങള്‍ ചെയ്യേണ്ടത്, ആ പോസ്റ്റിലെ കോഡ് അതേപടി കോപ്പി എടുത്ത ശേഷം, ഒരു നോട്പാഡില്‍ പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്തു വെക്കുക. പിന്നീട്, ഇവിടെ ചുവന്ന അക്ഷരത്തില്‍ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന ഭാഗം മാത്രം&lt;b&gt; ശ്രദ്ധയോടെ&lt;/b&gt; കോപ്പിയെടുത്ത്, ആ നോട്പാഡില്‍ പോയി സേര്‍ച്ച് ചെയ്തു കണ്ടു പിടിക്കുക. ഇനി മാറ്റിക്കോളൂ... ഇതു വളരെ എടുപ്പമായിരിക്കുമെന്നു കരുതുന്നു. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MySpace, RSS Feeds തുടങ്ങിയവയൊന്നും ചിലപ്പോള്‍ എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും ഉണ്ടായെന്നു വരില്ല. അപ്പോള്‍ അത്തരം കോഡുകളും നീക്കം ചെയ്യേണ്ടതുണ്ടല്ലോ. അങ്ങനെ നീക്കം ചെയ്യാന്‍ ഉള്ള ഉദാഹരണമാണ്‌ അവസാനം &lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"&gt;നീല നിറത്തില്‍ ബോള്‍ഡായി&lt;/span&gt; കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. ആ ഒരു ഭാഗം മുഴുവനായും ഡിലീറ്റ് ചെയ്താല്‍ സിഗ്നേച്ചറിലെ അവസാനത്തെ RSS Feeds എന്ന ലിങ്കു പോവുന്നതു കാണാം. ഇടയിലുള്ള ഏതെങ്കിലും ബ്ലോക്ക് ഡിലീറ്റു ചെയ്യാനും ഇതുപോലെ ആ ഒരു ബ്ലോക്ക് തന്നെ നീക്കേണ്ടതാണ്‌. ഈ പേജില്‍ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന കോഡ് അതേപടി കോപ്പി എടുത്തേക്കരുത്! ചായില്യത്തിലെ ആ പോസ്റ്റില്‍ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന കോഡു തന്നെ വേണം കോപ്പി എടുക്കാന്‍. ഇനി കോഡു നോക്കുക:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(253, 253, 253); border: 4px solid rgb(90, 90, 90); color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0pt auto; padding: 5px 10px; width: 90%;"&gt;&amp;lt;div style=”padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px; background: none repeat   scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238,   238); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); -moz-border-radius:   3px 3px 3px 3px; height: 110px; margin: 0pt;”&amp;gt; &amp;lt;img style=”width:   70px; height: 70px; float: left; border: medium none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/rajesh-k-odayanchal.png”&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;div style=”font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:   16px; color: rgb(187, 187, 187); font-weight: bold; margin-bottom:   3px;”&amp;gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Rajesh K&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;div style=”font-size: 12px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);   line-height: 15px;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=”font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0,   51, 102); padding-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px;”&amp;gt;Tel:&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;+91 –   9980591900&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;div style=”font-size: 12px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);   line-height: 15px;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=”font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0,   51, 102); padding-right: 5px; margin-top:   2px;”&amp;gt;Email:&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”#” style=”font-family:   Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(91, 153, 254);   text-decoration:   none;”&amp;gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;rajeshodayanchal@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;div style=”font-size: 12px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);   line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 9px;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=”font-size:   12px; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); padding-right: 5px; margin-top:   2px;”&amp;gt;Website:&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”http://chayilyam.com”   target=”_blank” style=”font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;   font-size: 12px; color: rgb(91, 153, 254); text-decoration:   none;”&amp;gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;http://chayilyam.com&lt;/span&gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;div style=”display: block; float: left;”&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;ul style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; list-style: none outside none; width: auto;”&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your LinkedIn Profile:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My LinkedIn Profile”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://in.linkedin.com/in/rajeshodayanchal”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img   style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium   none; text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/linkedin.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your Twitter Account:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Twitter Account”  &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; href=”http://www.twitter.com/odayanchal/”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img style=”margin: 0pt;   padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium none;   text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/twitter.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your Facebook Profile:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Facebook Account”  &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; href=”http://www.facebook.com/#%21/odayanchal”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img style=”margin:   0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium none;   text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/facebook.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your Orkut Profile:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Orkut Profile”  &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; href=”http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile?uid=2307759227150664180″&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img   style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium   none; text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/orkut.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your Delicious Bookmarks:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Delicious Bookmarks”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://delicious.com/rajeshodayanchal/”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img style=”margin:   0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium none;   text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/delicious.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your Stumbledupon Sites:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Stumbled Sites”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/rajeshodayanchal/”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img   style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium   none; text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/stumble.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your YouTube Videos:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Youtube Videos”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://www.youtube.com/user/rajeshodayanchal”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img   style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium   none; text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/youtube.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your Picasa Web Album:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Picasa Web albums”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://picasaweb.google.com/rajeshodayanchal/”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img   style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium   none; text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/picasa.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Link to your Flickr Web Album:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Flickr Web albums”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/90118566@N00/”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img   style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium   none; text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/flickr.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your MySpace Account:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Myspace Account”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://www.myspace.com/328788045″&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img style=”margin: 0pt;   padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium none;   text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/myspace.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is your Google Profile:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium none;”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a style=”height: 32px; width: 32px;   display: block;” target=”_blank” title=”My Google Profile”   &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;href=”http://www.google.com/profiles/rajeshodayanchal”&lt;/span&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img   style=”margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border: medium none; outline: medium   none; text-decoration: none;”   src=”http://chayilyam.com/signature/google.png”&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is Yahoo Profile:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;li style=”float: left; list-style: none outside none; display:   inline; width: 32px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; outline: medium none;   border: medium 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size-full wp-image-515" height="343" src="http://chayilyam.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/malayalam-wikipedia.jpg" title="malayalam-wikipedia" width="555" /&gt;മലയാളം‌ വിക്കിപീഡിയ സം‌രം‌ഭങ്ങളെകുറിച്ചുള്ള അവബോധം‌ കൂടുതല്‍‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ജനങ്ങളിലേക്കെത്തിക്കുക എന്ന ഉദ്ദേശ്യത്തോടെ നടത്തിവരുന്ന &lt;b&gt;മലയാളം‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; വിക്കിപീഡിയ പഠനശിബരം&lt;/b&gt;‌ 2010 ജൂണ്‍ 6-നു് വൈകുന്നേരം 4 മുതല്‍ 6.30 വരെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ബാം‌ഗ്ലൂരില്‍‌ വെച്ചു നടക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. ബാം‌ഗ്ലൂരില്‍‌ നടത്തുന്ന രണ്ടാമതു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പഠനശിബിരമാണിത്‌. &lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore_Wikipedia_Academy1" target="_blank"&gt;ആദ്യ പഠനശിബിരം‌&lt;/a&gt; 2010 മാര്‍ച്ച് 21-നായിരുന്നു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; നടന്നത്. ആകെ പതിനഞ്ചുപേര്‍‌ പങ്കെടുത്ത ഈ പഠനശിബിരത്തില്‍‌ ഒരു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; വനിതയടക്കം‌ എട്ടുപേര്‍ പുതുമുഖങ്ങളായിരുന്നു. പഠനശിബിരത്തില്‍‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പങ്കെടുത്തവരുടെ പേരുകള്‍‌ താഴെ കൊടുക്കുന്നു:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style ="width:605px; float:left"&gt;&lt;div style="display: 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href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Shijualex" target="_blank"&gt;ഷിജു അലക്സ്&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Tinucherian" target="_blank"&gt;ടിനു ചെറിയാന്‍‌&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline; float: left; width: 200px;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Kiran_Gopi" target="_blank"&gt;കിരണ്‍ ഗോപി&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Ganeshkn" target="_blank"&gt;ഗണേശ്&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Johnchacks" target="_blank"&gt;ജോണ്‍ ചാക്കോ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;രഘു&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;ശബ്‌ന&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=" float: left;  width: 200px;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;ഫൈസല്‍&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;ശ്യാം&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;ദീപക്&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;ഷിഷിത്ത് ലാല്‍&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;ഷിനോജ്&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;ഏകദേശം‌ 4:15 ഓടുകൂടി തുടങ്ങിയ പഠനശിബിരത്തിലേക്ക്‌ സ്വാഗതമാശം‌സിച്ചു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സം‌സാരിച്ചത്‌ രമേശ് എന്‍.ജി ആയിരുന്നു. തുടര്‍‌ന്ന്‌ അം‌ഗങ്ങള്‍‌ പരസ്പരം‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തി. പിന്നീട്‌, വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ പ്രസക്തിയെക്കുറിച്ചും‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ സഹോദരസം‌രം‌ഭങ്ങളേയും കുറിച്ചു വിവരിച്ചുകൊണ്ട്‌ ഷിജു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; അലക്സ്‌ സം‌സാരിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. ഇതില്‍‌ പ്രധാനമായും‌ വിവരിക്കപ്പെട്ട&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; കാര്യങ്ങള്‍‌ താഴെ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നു:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;എന്താണ്‌ വിക്കി, വിക്കിപീഡിയ?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;ആരാണു് വിക്കിപീഡിയ പദ്ധതികള്‍&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; നടത്തുന്നതു്?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷന്റെ ലക്ഷ്യം&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ, മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ ചരിത്രം,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയും മറ്റു ഇന്ത്യന്‍ ഭാഷാ വിക്കിപീഡിയകളുമായുള്ള&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; താരതമ്യം,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68, 68, 68);"&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ സഹോദര സംരംഭങ്ങള്‍.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഉപയോക്താക്കളുടെ സംശയങ്ങള്‍ അപ്പപ്പോള്‍‌ തന്നെ ദൂരികരിച്ചുകൊണ്ടുള്ള ഈ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ക്ലാസിനു ശേഷം‌ ഷിജു അലക്സ്‌ തന്നെ വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ &lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BE" target="_blank"&gt;സമ്പര്‍ക്കമുഖത്തെ&lt;/a&gt; പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തിക്കൊണ്ടു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സം‌സാരിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. ഇതില്‍ പ്രധാനമായും&amp;nbsp; മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പ്രധാനതാളിലെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ലേഖനം, പുതിയ ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍, തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ചിത്രങ്ങള്‍, ചരിത്രരേഖ എന്നീ വിഭാഗങ്ങള്‍ പുതുമുഖങ്ങള്‍ക്ക്&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തി കൊടുക്കുകയായിരുന്നു.&amp;nbsp; തുടര്‍‌ന്ന്‌&amp;nbsp; എന്താണ്‌ വിക്കി&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ലേഖനം എന്നും , വിക്കി താളിന്റെ ഘടകങ്ങള്‍ എന്തൊക്കെയാണു് എന്നും&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; വിവരിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. ഒരു വായനക്കാരന്‍ എന്ന നിലയില്‍ മലയാളം വിക്കിയെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സമീപ്പിക്കേണ്ട കാര്യങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ചും‌ ഇവിടെ വിവരിക്കപ്പെട്ടു (ഉദാ: ഒരു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പ്രത്യേക ലേഖനം വിക്കിയില്‍ കണ്ടെത്തുന്നതു് എങ്ങനെ തുടങ്ങിയ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; കാര്യങ്ങള്‍‌).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;തുടര്‍‌ന്ന്‌ അനൂപ്‌, വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍‌ എങ്ങനെ എഡിറ്റിം‌ങ്‌ നടത്താം‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; എന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ച്‌ വളരെ വിശദമായി തന്നെ വിവരിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. ലേഖനം&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; തിരുത്തിയെഴുതന്നെങ്ങനെ, മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ എങ്ങനെയാണു് മലയാളത്തില്‍&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യുന്നത്,&amp;nbsp; ലേഖനത്തിന്റെ ഫോര്‍മാറ്റിംങ്‌ രീതികള്‍, അവക്കുള്ള&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; വിവരണം, എഡിറ്റിം‌ങിനുള്ള സഹായം എങ്ങനെ ലഭിക്കും, പുതിയ ഉപയോക്തൃനാമം&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; എങ്ങനെ സൃഷ്ടിക്കാം തുടങ്ങി ഒട്ടവവധി കാര്യങ്ങളെ ഓണ്‍‌ലൈനായി കാണിച്ചു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; തന്നെ അനൂപ്‌ വിവരിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;തുടര്‍‌ന്ന്‌ ഇടവേളയായിരുന്നു. ഇടവേളയ്‌ക്കു ശേഷം‌ അനൂപ്‌ തന്നെ ക്ലാസ്‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; തുടരുകയായിരുന്നു. പുതിയ ലേഖനം‌ സൃഷ്‌ടിക്കുന്നതങ്ങെനെ, അതിനെ എങ്ങനെയൊക്കെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ഫോര്‍‌മാറ്റ്‌ ചെയ്യാം‌ എന്നു &lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Bangalore_International_Airport" target="_blank"&gt;എച്ച്.എ.എല്‍. വിമാനത്താവളം&lt;/a&gt; എന്ന ലേഖനം&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സൃഷ്ടിച്ചുകൊണ്ട്&amp;nbsp; വിവരിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. ഇതിനിടയില്‍‌ &lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D:Vicharam" target="_blank"&gt;വിചാരം&lt;/a&gt;‌ എന്ന വിക്കിയൂസര്‍‌ ഇതേ ലേഖനത്തില്‍‌ മറ്റൊരു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സ്ഥലത്തുനിന്നു മാറ്റങ്ങള്‍‌ വരുത്തിയത്‌ കൗതുകമുണര്‍‌ത്തിച്ചു. ഇത്‌,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ലോകത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ ഭാഗങ്ങളില്‍ ഇരുന്ന് കൊളാബറേറ്റീവ് ഓതറിങ്ങിലൂടെ ഒരു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ലേഖനം‌ എങ്ങനെയൊക്കെ നന്നയിവരുന്നു എന്നത് നേരിട്ട് മനസ്സിലാക്കാന്‍&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പുതുമുഖങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് സഹായമായി.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;തുടര്‍‌ന്ന്‌&amp;nbsp; പൊതു ചര്‍ച്ച ആയിരുന്നു. ഇതില്‍&amp;nbsp; മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ഇതരവിഷയങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ചും,&amp;nbsp; പുതിയ ഉപയോക്താക്കളുടെ സംശയങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് മറുപടി&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; നല്‍‌കുകയുണ്ടായി. പങ്കെടുത്തവര്‍ കാര്യമാത്രപ്രസക്തമായ ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ചോദിച്ച് പഠനശിബിരത്തെ സജീവമാക്കി എന്നതായിരുന്നു ഇപ്രാവശ്യത്തെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; പഠനശിബിരത്തിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ പ്രത്യേകത. ഏഴരയോടെയാണ് പഠനശിബിരം‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; അവസാനിപ്പിക്കാനായത്‌. ശിബിരത്തില്‍‌ പങ്കെടുത്ത പുതുമുഖങ്ങള്‍‌ക്കെല്ലാം‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; മലയാളം‌ വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍‌ നിന്നും‌ തെരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത 500 ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സമാഹാരമായ ഒരു &lt;a href="http://www.mlwiki.in/mlwikicd/" target="_blank"&gt;സീഡിയും‌ &lt;/a&gt;വിക്കിപീഡിയയെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന പുസ്തകവും‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; നല്‍‌കുകയുണ്ടായി.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px dashed rgb(136, 136, 0); color: #008888; font-size: 14px; padding: 0pt 10px 10px;"&gt;&lt;h3&gt;വിക്കിപീഡിയ പഠനശിബിരം‌‌&amp;nbsp; നിങ്ങളുടെ സ്ഥലങ്ങളിലും‌&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Malayalam Wikipedia Academy in your place" src="http://chayilyam.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/wikipedia-logo2.png" style="float: left; height: 100px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0pt; width: 100px;" /&gt;ഇതുവരെ ബാംഗ്ലൂരില്‍ മാത്രമേ മലയാളം വിക്കിപഠനശിബിരം നടന്നിട്ടുള്ളൂ. അതു്&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; മറ്റുള്ള സ്ഥലങ്ങളിലേക്കും വ്യാപിപ്പിക്കേണ്ടതുണ്ടു്. കേരളത്തില്‍‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സ്കൂളുകളും‌ കോളേജുകളും‌ ഈ പദ്ധതിയോട്‌ സഹകരികരിക്കുകയാണെങ്കില്‍‌ ഇതൊരു&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; വന്‍‌വിജയമായിമാറുമെന്നു തന്നെ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കാം‌. കേരളത്തിനകത്ത് ജില്ലകള്‍&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; തോറും വിക്കിപഠനശിബിരങ്ങള്‍ നടത്തുന്നതിനു് പുറമേ ലോകത്ത് മലയാളികളുള്ള&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സ്ഥലങ്ങളില്‍ ഒക്കെ മലയാളം വിക്കിപഠനശിബിരങ്ങള്‍ നടത്തി വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; കുറിച്ചുള്ള അറിവു് എല്ലാ മലയാളികളിലേക്കും എത്തിക്കേണ്ടതു് വളരെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ആവശ്യമാണു്.&amp;nbsp; അത്തരം പ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങളെ ഏകോപിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ മലയാളം&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ ഒരു താള്‍ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ടു്.&amp;nbsp; അതു് &lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:Academy" target="_blank"&gt;ഇവിടെ കാണാം&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;നിങ്ങളുടെ സ്ഥലത്ത് മലയാളം വിക്കിപഠനശിബിരം നടത്തണമെങ്കില്‍ ക്ലാസ്സ്&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; നടത്താനുള്ള സൗകര്യങ്ങള്‍ (പ്രൊജക്റ്റര്‍, ബ്രോഡ്‌ബാന്‍‌ഡ്, കമ്പ്യൂട്ടര്‍)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ഒരുക്കി മലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവര്‍ത്തകരുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെടുക.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="mailto:mlwikimeetup@gmail.com"&gt;mlwikimeetup@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; ഈ മെയില്‍‌ അഡ്രസ്സിലേക്ക്‌ മെയില്‍‌&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; അയച്ചുകൊണ്ടും‌ വിക്കിപ്രവര്‍‌ത്തകരുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെടാവുന്നതാണ്. മലയാളഭാഷയെ&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; സ്നേഹിക്കുന്ന എല്ലാവരുടേയും‌ സഹകരണം‌ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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/&gt;വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷന്റെ വിവിധ മലയാളം വിക്കികളിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകരുടെ&lt;b&gt; സംഗമം 2010 ഏപ്രിൽ 17 ശനിയാഴ്ച ഉച്ച കഴിഞ്ഞു് 2 മണി മുതൽ 5 മണി വരെ എറണാകുളം ജില്ലയിൽ കളമശ്ശേരിയിലുള്ള രാജഗിരി കോളേജ് ഓഫ് സോഷ്യൽ സയൻസിൽ&lt;/b&gt; വെച്ചു് സംഘടിപ്പിക്കുന്നു.  സ്പേസ്, രാജഗിരി കോളേജ് ഓഫ് സോഷ്യൽ സയൻസ്, ഐടി@സ്കൂൾ, മലയാളം വിക്കിപദ്ധതികളുടെ പ്രവർത്തനത്തിൽ തല്പരരായ വിവിധ സന്നദ്ധസംഘടനകൾ തുടങ്ങിയവയുടെ സഹകരണത്തോടെയാണ്‌ ഈ പ്രാവശ്യത്തെ &lt;b&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കിസംഗമം &lt;/b&gt;സംഘടിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്. സജീവമലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകർക്കു പുറമേ പൊതുജനപങ്കാളിത്തം കൂടിയുണ്ടെന്നതാണ് ഈ പ്രാവശ്യത്തെ വിക്കിസംഗമത്തിന്റെ പ്രത്യേകത. മലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകർ സംഘടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന മൂന്നാമത്തെ വിക്കി സംഗമം ആണു് ഇതു്. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കിപദ്ധികളെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള  അവബോധം മലയാളികൾക്കിടയിലുണ്ടാക്കുക എന്നതാണു് മലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകരുടെ സംഗമം കൊണ്ടുള്ള പ്രധാന ഉദ്ദേശം. അതിനൊപ്പം തന്നെ നിരവധി വർഷങ്ങളായി ലോകത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ കോണുകളിലിരുന്നു് മലയാളം വിക്കിപദ്ധികളിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന  മലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകർ തമ്മിൽ നേരിട്ടു് കാണുകയും അവരുടെ അനുഭവങ്ങൾ പങ്കു് വെക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുക എന്ന ഉദ്ദേശവും ഉണ്ടു്.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കി പ്രവർത്തകർ പൊതു ജനങ്ങളുമായി നേരിട്ടു് ഇടപഴുകുന്ന വിവിധ പരിപാടികൾ ഉച്ച കഴിഞ്ഞ് 2:00 മണി മുതലാണു്. പ്രസ്തുത പരിപാടിയുടെ വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ താഴെ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;പരിപാടി:&lt;/b&gt; മലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തക സംഗമം &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;സമയം:&lt;/b&gt; ഉച്ച കഴിഞ്ഞു് 2.00 മണി മുതൽ 5:30 വരെ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ആർക്കൊക്കെ പങ്കെടുക്കാം?&lt;/b&gt; മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളിൽ താല്പര്യമുള്ള ആർക്കും പങ്കെടുക്കാം. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;എന്തൊക്കെയാണു് കാര്യപരിപാടികൾ:&lt;/b&gt; മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത 500 ലേഖനങ്ങൽ ഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്ന സി.ഡി.യുടെ പ്രകാശനം,  മലയാളം വിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങളെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തൽ, എങ്ങനെയാണു് വിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങളുടെ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുക, മലയാളം വിക്കികളിൽ എങ്ങനെ മലയാളത്തിൽ ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യാം, തുടങ്ങി മലയാളം വിക്കികളെകുറിച്ചു് പുതുമുഖങ്ങൾക്ക് താല്പര്യമുള്ള അനുബന്ധ വിഷയങ്ങളുടെ അവതരണം,  മലയാളത്തിലുള്ള വിവര സംഭരണ സംരംഭങ്ങളുടെ പ്രസക്തിയെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള സെമിനാർ, പത്രസമ്മേളനം. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;സ്ഥലം:&lt;/b&gt; രാജഗിരി കോളേജ് ഓഫ് സോഷ്യൽ സയൻസ്, കളമശ്ശേരി &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;എത്തിച്ചേരാനുള്ള വഴി: &lt;/b&gt;എറണാകുളത്തു നിന്നും ആലുവയിലേക്ക് വരുന്ന വഴി എന്‍.എച്ച്-47 ൽ എച്ച്.എം.ടി ജംങ്ഷന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞതിനു ശേഷം ഇടതുവശത്തായിട്ടാണ് രാജഗിരി കോളേജ്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;ട്രൈനു വരുന്നവര്‍‌ നോര്‍‌ത്ത്‌ റെയില്‍‌വേ സ്റ്റേഷനില്‍‌  ഇറങ്ങിയാല്‍‌ മതിയാവും‌; അവിടെ നിന്നും‌ പാലാരിവട്ടം‌ എടപ്പള്ളി വഴി  ആലുവയ്‌ക്കു പോകുന്ന ബസ്സില്‍‌ കയറി കളമശ്ശേരിയില്‍‌ ഇറങ്ങാവുന്നതാണ്.  റെയില്‍‌വേ സ്റ്റേഷനില്‍‌ നിന്നും‌ ഏകദേശം‌ അരക്കിലോമീറ്റര്‍‌ ദൂരെ ഉള്ള  കല്ലൂര്‍‌ ബസ്സ്‌ സ്റ്റാന്‍‌ഡില്‍‌ (സ്റ്റാന്‍‌ഡിനകത്തു പോകേണ്ടതില്ല)  നിന്നും‌ കളമശ്ശേരിക്കുള്ള ബസ്സു ലഭിക്കും‌.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;രജിസ്റ്ററേഷൻ: പരിപാടിക്ക് രജിസ്റ്റർ ചെയ്യാൻ &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;mlwikimeetup@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt; എന്ന 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സേര്‍‌ച്ചു ചെയ്താല്‍‌ പലപ്പോഴും‌ വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍‌ എത്തിച്ചേരുകയാണു പതിവ്‌. അവിടെ നിങ്ങളെ കാത്തിരിക്കുന്ന information-ന്റെ വിപുലമായ വിന്യാസം‌ കണ്ട്‌ അല്പമൊന്ന്‌ അന്ധാളിച്ചേക്കാം‌! ആരാണിതൊക്കെ കൊടുത്തത്? എവിടെയാണിതിന്റെ ഉറവിടം? ഇങ്ങനെ ഒത്തിരി ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍‌ മനസ്സിലുദിച്ചു വന്നേക്കാം.. എന്നാല്‍‌ മലയാളത്തിലും‌ ഇതുപോലെ ഒരു വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഉണ്ടെന്നുള്ള കാര്യം‌ പലര്‍‌ക്കും‌ അറിയില്ല.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മലയാളം  വിക്കിപീഡിയയെയും സഹോദര സംരംഭങ്ങളേയും  ബാംഗ്ലൂരിലെ  മലയാളികൾക്കു്  പരിചയെപ്പെടുത്തുക എന്ന ഉദ്ദേശത്തോടു് കൂടി 2010 മാർച്ച് 21 ആം തീയതി ബാം‌ഗ്ലൂരില്‍‌ വെച്ച്‌ ഒരു വിക്കിപഠനശിബിരം നടത്തുകയുണ്ടായി.   പ്രസ്തുത വിക്കി ശിബിരത്തിന്റെ&lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A0%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%82%E0%B5%BC_1 " target="_blank"&gt; ലിങ്ക് ഇവിടെ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നു.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* മലയാളം വിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങളെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുക,&lt;br /&gt;* എങ്ങനെയാണു് വിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങളുടെ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുക?&lt;br /&gt;* മലയാളം വിക്കികളിൽ എങ്ങനെ മലയാളത്തിൽ ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യാം?&lt;br /&gt;തുടങ്ങി പല കാര്യങ്ങളും അവിടെ വച്ചു് മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയെ കുറിച്ച് അറിയാനാഗ്രഹിക്കുന്ന പുതുമുഖങ്ങൾക്കു് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തി. അന്നവിടെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തിയതും ചര്‍‌ച്ച ചെയതതും ആയ കാര്യങ്ങൾ‌ പ്രിന്റെടുത്തു പരിപാടിക്കു് വന്നവർക്കു് നല്‍‌കുകയുണ്ടായി. ആ പ്രമാണത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന ഉള്ളടക്കം നിങ്ങളുടെ അറിവിലേക്കായി താഴെ കൊടുക്കുന്നു. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഇതോടൊപ്പം തന്നെ  വേരൊരു പ്രധാന കാര്യം കൂടെ പറഞ്ഞോട്ടെ. ഈ വരുന്ന വിഷു കഴിഞ്ഞുള്ള 17 ആം‌ തീയതി (2010 ഏപ്രിൽ 17നു്) വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷന്റെ മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകരുടെ സംഗമം എറണാകുളത്തെ രാജഗിരി കോളേജ് ഓഫ് സോഷ്യൽ സയൻ‌സസ്, കളമശ്ശേരിയിൽ വെച്ചു് നടത്തുന്നു. മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളിൽ താല്പര്യമുള്ള എല്ലാ മലയാളികളേയും പ്രസ്തുത സംഗമത്തിലേക്ക് സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്യുന്നു. ഈ പരിപാടിയെ കുറിച്ച്‌  &lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:Meetup/2010" target="_blank"&gt;വിശദമായിട്ട് ഇവിടെ കൊടുത്തിട്ടുണ്ട്‌&lt;/a&gt;. വായിച്ചു നോക്കുമല്ലോ. എന്തെങ്കിലും‌ സം‌ശയമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ‌ യാതൊരു മടിയും‌ കൂടാതെ ചോദിക്കണമെന്ന്‌ അഭ്യര്‍‌ത്ഥിക്കുന്നു.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മലയാളം‌ വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളെ പരിചയപ്പെടുന്നതിന്‌ താഴെ കാണുന്ന ഉള്ളടക്കം നിങ്ങളെ സഹായിക്കും. മലയാളത്തെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്ന എല്ലാവരും‌ ഇതു വായിച്ചു നോക്കാനും സംശങ്ങൾ ചോദിക്കാനും അഭ്യർത്ഥിക്കുന്നു.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color:#000; font-size:14px; line-height:22px; margin:3px; padding:10px; border:3px solid #ffc1c1; background:#ffe7e7 "&gt;1. എന്താണ് വിക്കിപീഡിയ? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float:left; margin:0px; padding:5px; margin-bottom:10px; margin-right:10px; border:1px dashed #525252"&gt;&lt;img src="http://chayilyam.com/wikipedia/Wikipedia-logo-ml.jpg" alt="Wikipedia - Malayalam" title="Wikipedia - Malayalam" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;അനേകം എഴുത്തുകാരുടേയും വായനക്കാരുടേയും സഹകരണത്തോടെ സൃഷ്ടിക്കപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന സ്വതന്ത്രവും സൗജന്യവുമായ ഓൺലൈൻ സർവ്വവിജ്ഞാനകോശം ആണ്‌ വിക്കിപീഡിയ. അനേകം എഴുത്തുകാരുടെ അറിവും പ്രയത്നവും വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ ഓരോ ലേഖനത്തിനു പിന്നിലുണ്ട്. ഏറ്റവും വലിയ വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലാണ് (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" target="_blank"&gt; http://en.wikipedia.org/&lt;/a&gt;). ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ നിലവില്‍ 32 ലക്ഷത്തില്‍പ്പരം ലേഖനങ്ങളുണ്ട്. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ (&lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org" target="_blank"&gt;http://ml.wikipedia.org&lt;/a&gt;) വികസിച്ചുവരുന്നതെയുള്ളൂ. നിലവിൽ 12,000 ത്തോളം ലേഖനങ്ങളാണു് മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലുള്ളത്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. എന്തിനാണു് വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ ലെഖനം എഴുതേണ്ടതു്? എനിക്കു് അതു് കൊണ്ടു് എന്തു് പ്രയോജനം ലഭിയ്ക്കും?&lt;br /&gt;നമുക്കോരോരുത്തർക്കും ഇന്ന് ലഭിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ലഭിച്ചു്  കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന അറിവുകൾ പലരിൽനിന്ന്, പലസ്ഥലങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന്, പലപ്പോഴായി പകർന്നു് കിട്ടിയിട്ടുള്ളതാണ്. അത് മറ്റുള്ളവർക്കു് കൂടി പ്രയോജനമാകുന്ന രീതിയിൽ പകർന്നു് നൽകാൻ, സൂക്ഷിച്ചുവയ്ക്കുവാന്‍ ഒരു സാമൂഹിക വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയിൽ നമുക്കോരോരുത്തര്‍ക്കും കടമയുണ്ട്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;രേഖപ്പെടുത്താതു്  മൂലം നഷ്ടമായിപ്പോയ നിരവധി അറിവുകളുണ്ടു്. നമുക്കു് ലഭിച്ച അറിവുകൾ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ കൂടിയും മറ്റു് വിക്കി  സംരംഭങ്ങളിൽ കൂടിയും പങ്കു് വെക്കുന്നതിലൂടെ നമ്മൾ നമ്മുടെ ഭാവി തലമുറയ്ക്കായി ഒരു സേവനം ആണു് ചെയ്യുന്നതു്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;സൗജന്യമായി വിജ്ഞാനം പകർന്നു് നല്‍കുന്നതിലൂടെ ലഭിക്കുന്ന ആത്മസംതൃപ്തിയാണു് വിക്കിയന്മാർക്ക് ഇത്തരം പൊതുസേവനത്തിലൂടെ ലഭിക്കുക. അതോടൊപ്പം അറിവു് പങ്കു് വെക്കുന്നതിലൂടെ അതു് വർദ്ധിക്കുന്നു എന്ന പഴംചൊല്ലു് നിത്യജീവിതത്തിൽ പ്രാവർത്തികമാകുന്നതും കാണാനാകും. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഓർക്കുക, ഇതുപോലെ പല സുമനസ്സുകൾ വിചാരിച്ചതിന്റെ ഫലമാണ് നാമിന്നു് ആർജ്ജിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന അറിവുകളൊക്കെയും. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിക്കിപീഡിയപോലുള്ള  സംരഭങ്ങളിൽ ലേഖനം എഴുതുന്നതിലൂടെ നമ്മുടെ അറിവ് വര്‍ദ്ധിക്കുകയും ആ അറിവ് വിക്കിപീഡിയ്ക്കു പുറത്തുള്ളവരേക്കാൾ ഏറ്റവും പുതുതായി ഇരിക്കുകയും ചെയൂന്ന പ്രതിഭാസമാണു് വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതിലൂടെ ലഭിക്കുന്ന ഏറ്റവും വലിയ നേട്ടം എന്നു പരിചയസമ്പന്നരായ വിക്കിയന്മാർ എല്ലാം തന്നെ സമ്മതിക്കുന്നുണ്ടു്. കാരണം നാം സ്വന്തമായി ഒരു ലേഖനം എഴുതുമ്പോൾ അതിന്റെ ആധികാരികത ഉറപ്പാക്കാനായി അത് സ്വയം പഠിക്കും എന്നതു് തന്നെ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ ലേഖനം എഴുതുന്നതിന് ആ വിഷയത്തില്‍ നല്ല അറിവുണ്ടാവേണ്ടേ? അതില്ലാത്തവര്‍ എന്തുചെയ്യും?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ നിന്ന് ആളുകളെ അകറ്റി നിര്‍ത്തുന്ന ഒരു പ്രധാന തെറ്റിദ്ധാരണയാണ് ഇത്. വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ ലേഖനം എഴുതുവാന്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ആ വിഷയത്തില്‍ അഗാധപാണ്ഡിത്യം ഉണ്ടാവേണ്ടതില്ല. വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ ഒരു ലേഖനവും ഒരാൾ മാത്രം എഴുതിതീര്‍ത്തതുമല്ല. പല മേഖലയിലുള്ളവർ, പലരാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ താമസിക്കുന്നവർ, ഇന്റര്‍നെറ്റ് എന്ന മാധ്യമത്തിലൂടെ കൂട്ടായി എഴുതിതീര്‍ത്തവയാണ് ഇതിലെ ഓരോ ലേഖനങ്ങളും. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തെ ഒരു സ്കൂള്‍ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥി ഇലക്ട്രിക് ബള്‍ബ് എന്ന ഒരു ലേഖനം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ എഴുതുവാന്‍ തുടങ്ങുന്നു എന്നു സങ്കല്പിക്കൂ. അവന്റെ അറിവിന്റെ പരിധിയില്‍നിന്നുകൊണ്ട് ഇലക്ട്രിക് ബള്‍ബ് എന്താണ് ചെയ്യുന്നതെന്നതിന്റെ ഒരു അടിസ്ഥാന വിവരണം മാത്രം ഒരു പാരഗ്രാഫിൽ എഴുതുകയാണ് അവന്‍ ചെയ്തത്. കുറേ ദിവസം കഴിഞ്ഞ് മദ്രാസില്‍ നിന്നും ഒരു എഞ്ചിനീയറിംഗ് വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥി ആ ലേഖനം അല്പം കൂടി വിപുലപ്പെടുത്തി ബള്‍ബിന്റെ പ്രവര്‍ത്തന തത്വങ്ങളും, അതിന്റെ രേഖാ ചിത്രങ്ങളും അതേ ലേഖനത്തില്‍ കൂട്ടിച്ചേര്‍ക്കുന്നു എന്നിരിക്കട്ടെ. തുടര്‍ന്ന് അമേരിക്കയില്‍ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്ന മലയാളിയായ ഒരു ഇലക്ട്രിക്കൽ എഞ്ചിനീയർ ഈ ലേഖനം കാണാനിടയാവുകയും, പലവിധ ബള്‍ബുകളെ കുറിച്ച് കുറച്ചുകൂടി ആധികാരികമായതും, സാങ്കേതിക വിജ്ഞാനം പകരുന്നതുമായ മറ്റുകാര്യങ്ങള്‍കൂടി ആ ലേഖനത്തിൽ ചേര്‍ക്കുന്നു എന്നും വിചാരിക്കുക. ഇങ്ങനെ അവസാനം ഇലക്ട്രിക് ബള്‍ബിനെപ്പറ്റിയുള്ള ആ ലേഖനം വിജ്ഞാനപ്രദമായ ഒരു നല്ല ലേഖനമായി മാറുന്നു. പലതുള്ളി പെരുവെള്ളം! ഇതുതന്നെയാണ് വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലേ ഓരോ ലേഖനത്തിനു പിന്നിലും ഉള്ള തത്വം. ഇതില്‍ ഭാഗഭാക്കാവാന്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കും സാധിക്കും എന്നു് മനസ്സിലായില്ലേ. പുതിയ ലേഖനങ്ങൾ തുടങ്ങിയും നിലവിലുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങൾ മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തിയും നിങ്ങൾക്കു് ഈ സംരംഭത്തിന്റെ ഭാഗമാകാം. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളുടെ പ്രസക്തി എന്തു്? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിവരങ്ങൾ സ്വതന്ത്രമാക്കുക, അതു് എല്ലാവരുമായി പങ്കുവെക്കുക, എന്നതൊക്കെതാണ് വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഉൾപ്പെടുന്ന മീഡിയാവിക്കി സംരംഭങ്ങളുടെ പ്രവർത്തനലക്ഷ്യമെങ്കിൽ, അതോടൊപ്പം, ശുഷ്കമായിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന നമ്മുടെ ഭാഷയുടെ ജീവൻ നിലനിർത്തുകയും, ഓൺ‌ലൈനിൽ മലയാളത്തിന്റെ സാന്നിദ്ധ്യം സജീവമാക്കി നിർത്തുക എന്നതുകൂടിയാണ് മലയാളം വിക്കിമീഡിയ സംരംഭങ്ങളുടെ ലക്ഷ്യം.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;നമ്മുടെ സ്കൂളുകളിലെ പഠനസമ്പ്രദായം വിദ്യാർത്ഥികേന്ദ്രീകൃതമാകുന്ന ഇക്കാലത്ത് പാഠപ്പുസ്തകത്തിനപ്പുറമുള്ള വിവരശേഖരണം പ്രധാനമാണല്ലോ. സ്കൂളുകളിൽ വീടുകളിലും ഇന്റർനെറ്റ് ഉപയോഗം വർദ്ധിച്ചുവരുന്നതിനാൽ കുട്ടികൾക്ക് മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ അടക്കമുള്ള വിവിധ വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങൾ പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്താ‍നുള്ള അവസരമുണ്ട്. ചരിത്രം, ഭൂമിശാ‍സ്ത്രം, ജ്യോതിശാസ്ത്രം തുടങ്ങിയ മേഖലകളിൽ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങൾ വിജ്ഞാനപ്രദമാണ്.  പകർപ്പവകാശമുക്തമായ ധാരാളം കൃതികൾ മലയാളം വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ലഭ്യമാണു്. ഏതൊരു വൈജ്ഞാനിക വിഷയത്തെ കുറിച്ചും സ്വന്തമായി വിക്കിപുസ്തകങ്ങൾ രചിക്കാൻ വിക്കിപാഠശാല അവസരം നൽകുന്നു. ബഹുഭാഷ നിഘണ്ടുമായ വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടുവിലൂടെ വിവിധഭാഷകളിലുള്ള വാക്കുകളുടെ മലയാളമർത്ഥം അറിയാം.   ഈ മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളിൽ കൂടെ അറിവു് നേടുക എന്നതിനൊപ്പം തന്നെ നിങ്ങൾക്കുള്ള അറിവു് മറ്റുള്ളവരുമായി പങ്കുവെക്കാനുള്ള അവസരം കൂടി ലഭ്യമാണു്.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ ലഘു ചരിത്രം തരാമോ? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2002 ഡിസംബർ 21-നു് അമേരിക്കന്‍ സര്‍വ്വകലാശാലയിൽ ഗവേഷണ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥിയായയിരുന്ന തിരുവനന്തപുരം സ്വദേശിയായ ശ്രീ. വിനോദ് മേനോന്‍ എം. പി യാണ് മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയക്കു (http://ml.wikipedia.org/) തുടക്കം ഇട്ടതു്. അദ്ദേഹം തന്നെയായിരുന്നു ആദ്യത്തെ രണ്ട് വര്‍ഷത്തോളം മലയാളം വിക്കിയെ സജീവമായി വിലനിര്‍ത്താൻ പ്രയത്നിച്ചതും. കുറേ കാലത്തോളം അദ്ദേഹം ഒറ്റക്കായിരുന്നു ഇതിന്റെ പ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങള്‍ ചെയ്തിരുന്നത്. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ ആരംഭകാലങ്ങളില്‍ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന അംഗങ്ങളെല്ലാം വിദേശമലയാളികളായിരുന്നു. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മലയാളം പോലുള്ള ഭാഷകള്‍ക്ക് കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിൽ എഴുതാനും വായിക്കാനുമുപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ലിപിവ്യവസ്ഥകളിൽ ആദ്യമൊന്നും പൊതുവായ മാനദണ്ഡമുണ്ടായിരുന്നില്ല. അതിനാല്‍ തന്നെ ഇത്തരം ഭാഷയിൽ എഴുതുന്ന ലേഖനങ്ങൾ വായിക്കാ, പ്രസ്തുത ലേഖനമെഴുതിയ ആൾ ഉപയോഗിച്ച ഫോണ്ടും കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ വ്യവസ്ഥയും തന്നെ ഉപയോഗിക്കണം എന്ന സ്ഥിതി ആയിരുന്നു. യൂണിക്കോഡ് എന്നറിയപ്പെടുന്ന കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ ലിപിവ്യവസ്ഥ വന്നതോടുകൂടി മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിനു വഴങ്ങുന്ന ഒന്നായി. എല്ലാഭാഷയ്ക്കും തനതായ ലിപിസ്ഥാനങ്ങൽ നിശ്ചയിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് അന്താരാഷ്ട്രതലത്തില്‍ നിലവില്‍ വന്നിട്ടുള്ള സംവിധാനമാണ് യുണികോഡ്. മലയാളം യൂണിക്കോഡ് സാര്‍‌വത്രികമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുവാൻ തുടങ്ങിയതോടെയാണ്‌ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ സജീവമായത്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;പക്ഷെ ഇത്രയും ബൃഹത്തായ ഒരു പദ്ധതി ഒന്നോ രണ്ടോ  പേർ ചേര്‍ന്ന് മുന്നോട്ട് കൊണ്ടു പോകുന്നത് അസാദ്ധ്യമായതിനാല്‍ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ തുടക്കം വളരെ മന്ദഗതിയിലായിരുന്നു. 2002-ൽ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടും 2004 വരെ മലയാളം വിക്കിയിൽ കാര്യമായ പുരോഗതിയുണ്ടായില്ല. 2004 മദ്ധ്യത്തോടെ മലയാളം യുണിക്കോഡ് എഴുത്തു സാമഗ്രികൾ സജീവമായിത്തുടങ്ങിയിരുന്നു.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മറ്റെല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലേയുംപോലെ മലയാളത്തിലും ഇക്കാലത്ത് ചെറിയ ലേഖനങ്ങളായിരുന്നു അധികവും. അവ മൊത്തത്തില് നൂറെണ്ണം പോലും തികഞ്ഞിരുന്നുമില്ല. 2004 ഡിസംബറിലാണ് മലയാളം വിക്കിയിൽ നൂറു ലേഖനങ്ങൾ തികയുന്നത്. 2005 മധ്യത്തോടെ പിന്നെയും പുതിയ അംഗങ്ങളെത്തി. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ മുഖ്യതാൾ അണിയിച്ചൊരുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. ലേഖനങ്ങൾ വിഷയാനുസൃതമായി ക്രമീകരിച്ചു തുടങ്ങി. 2005 സെപ്റ്റംബറിൽ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയ്ക്കു ആദ്യത്തെ സിസോപ്പിനെ ലഭിച്ചു. ഇതോടെ സാങ്കേതിക കാര്യങ്ങളിൽ മെറ്റാ വിക്കിയിലെ പ്രവര്‍ത്തകരെ ആശ്രയിക്കാതെ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയക്കു നിലനില്‍ക്കാം എന്ന സ്ഥിതിയായി. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മലയാളികള്‍ക്ക് മലയാളം ടൈപ്പിങ്ങിലുള്ള അജ്ഞത മൂലം മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ വളര്‍ച്ച ഇഴഞ്ഞിഴഞ്ഞ് നീങ്ങുകയായിരുന്നു. 2006ലാണ് ഇതിനു് മാറ്റം കണ്ടുതുടങ്ങിയത്. യൂണീക്കോഡ് മലയാളം ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ഗള്‍ഫ് നാടുകളിലും, അമേരിക്കൻ ഐക്യനാടുകളിലും ഉള്ള അനേകർ മലയാളത്തിൽ ബ്ലോഗു് ചെയ്യുവാൻ തുടങ്ങി. ബ്ലോഗിങ്ങിലൂടെ മലയാളം ടൈപ്പിങ്ങ് അനായസം പഠിച്ചെടുത്ത ഇവരിൽ പലരുടേയും ശ്രദ്ധ ‍ക്രമേണ വിജ്ഞാന സംഭരണ സംരംഭമായ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലേക്ക് തിരിഞ്ഞു. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;അങ്ങനെ കുറച്ച് സജീവ പ്രവര്‍ത്തകർ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെത്തിയതോടെ ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെ എണ്ണവും ഉള്ളടക്കത്തിന്റെ വൈവിധ്യവും മെച്ചപ്പെട്ടു. 2006 ഏപ്രിൽ 10ന് മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ 500-മത്തെ ലേഖനം പിറന്നു. ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെ എണ്ണം അതേവര്‍ഷം സെപ്റ്റംബറില്‍ 1000-വും, 2007 ഡിസംബര്‍ 12-നു് 5000 വും, 2009 ജൂൺ 1-നു് 10,000-വും കടന്നു. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ നിലവിൽ 12,000 ത്തോളം ലേഖനങ്ങളുണ്ടു്. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. ഏതൊക്കെ മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരംഭങ്ങളാണു് നിലവിൽ സജീവമായിരിക്കുന്നതു്? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിക്കിപീഡിയ (&lt;a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org" target="_blank"&gt;http://ml.wikipedia.org&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;ഏറ്റവും പ്രധാനവും  ഏറ്റവും സജീവവും ആയിരിക്കുന്നതു്, സൗജന്യവും സ്വതന്ത്രവുമായ സർവ്വവിജ്ഞാനകോശമായ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയാണു്.. ഇതിനു് പുറമേ മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയക്കു് താഴെ പറയുന്ന സഹൊദര സംരംഭങ്ങളുണ്ടു്.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല (&lt;a href="http://ml.wikisource.org" target="_blank"&gt;http://ml.wikisource.org&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;പകർപ്പവകാശകാലാവധി കഴിഞ്ഞു് പൊതുസഞ്ചയത്തിലെത്തിയ മലയാളകൃതികൾ ശേഖരിക്കുന്ന വിക്കിയാണു് വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല. അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണം, സത്യവേദപുസ്തകം, ഖുർ‌ആൻ, കുമാരനാശാന്റെ കവിതകൾ, ചങ്ങമ്പുഴയുടെ കവിതകൾ, കുഞ്ചൻനമ്പ്യാരുടെ കൃതികൾ, നാരായണീയം, കൃഷ്ണഗാഥ, ജ്ഞാനപ്പാന എന്നിങ്ങനെ ഒട്ടേറെ അമൂല്യ ഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങള്‍ മലയാളം വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ശേഖരിച്ചു് വച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. പകർപ്പവകാശപരിധിയിൽ വരാത്ത അമൂല്യ ഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങൾ വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിലാക്കാൻ നിങ്ങൾക്കും സഹായിക്കാം. മലയാളത്തിന്റെ ഓൺ‌ലൈൻ റെഫറൻ‌സ് ലൈബ്രറി ആയിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന വിക്കിയാണിതു്. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു (&lt;a href="http://ml.wiktionary.org" target="_blank"&gt;http://ml.wiktionary.org&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;നിര്‍വചനങ്ങൾ, ശബ്‌ദോത്‌പത്തികൾ, ഉച്ചാരണങ്ങൾ‍, മാതൃകാ ഉദ്ധരണികൾ, പര്യായങ്ങൾ‍, വിപരീത‍പദങ്ങൾ, തര്‍ജ്ജമകൾ എന്നിവയടങ്ങുന്ന ഒരു സ്വതന്ത്ര ബഹുഭാഷാ നിഘണ്ടു സൃഷ്ടിക്കുവാനുള്ള ഒരു സഹകരണ പദ്ധതിയാണ് മലയാളം വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു‌. മലയാളം വാക്കുകള്‍ക്ക് തത്തുല്യമായ ഇതരമലയാള പദങ്ങളും അതേ പോലെ അന്യഭാഷാ പദങ്ങളുടെ മലയാളത്തിലുള്ള അര്‍ത്ഥവും ചേര്‍ത്ത് ലോകത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ ഭാഗങ്ങളിലുള്ള മലയാളികള്‍ ഈ സംരംഭത്തിനുവേണ്ടി പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്നു. നിലവിൽ ഏതാണ്ടു് 41,000-ത്തോളം പദങ്ങളുടെ നിര്‍വചനമാണു വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടുവിലുള്ളത്. മലയാള വാക്കുകളുടേതിനു് പുറമേ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്, ജാപ്പനീസ്, കൊറിയന്‍, ഹിന്ദി, തമിഴ്, ചൈനീസ് എന്നീ ഭാഷകളിലെ വാക്കുകളും അവയുടെ മലയാളത്തിലുള്ള നിര്‍വചനവും ഈ വിക്കിയിലുണ്ട്. കാലക്രമേണ ഇതു് ഓൺ‌ലൈൻ മലയാളത്തിന്റെ നട്ടെല്ലായി മാറും. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിക്കിപാഠശാല (&lt;a href="http://ml.wikibooks.org/" target="_blank"&gt;http://ml.wikibooks.org/&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;പാഠപുസ്തകങ്ങൾ, മത്സരപ്പരീക്ഷാ സഹായികൾ, വിനോദയാത്രാ സഹായികൾ, പഠനസഹായികൾ എന്നിവ ചേർക്കുന്ന വിക്കിയാണു വിക്കിപാഠശാല. ഈ പദ്ധതി വരും കാലങ്ങളിൽ മലയാളികൾക്കു് ഏറെ പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്താവുന്നതാണ്. ആവശ്യത്തിനു് പ്രവർത്തകരില്ലാത്തതു് മൂലം ഇഴഞ്ഞു് നീങ്ങുന്ന ഒരു പദ്ധതി ആണിതു്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ (&lt;a href="http://ml.wikiquote.org" target="_blank"&gt; http://ml.wikiquote.org):&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ, പ്രസിദ്ധരായ വ്യക്തികളുടെ മൊഴികൾ, പ്രസിദ്ധമായ പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ/ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരണങ്ങൾ എന്നിവയിലുള്ള ഉദ്ധരിണികൾ, എന്നിവ ശേഖരിക്കുന്ന വിക്കിയാണ് വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ. നിലവിൽ ഈ വിക്കി സംരംഭത്തിൽ വലിയ പ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങളില്ല. വിജ്ഞാനം പങ്കു വെക്കുവാന്‍ തയ്യാറുള്ള ധാരാളം പ്രവര്‍ത്തകർ വന്നാൽ മാത്രമേ ഈ സംരഭങ്ങൾ സജീവമാകൂ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. എന്തിനാണു് മലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകരുടെ സംഗമം നടത്തുന്നതു്? &lt;br /&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കിപദ്ധികളെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള  അവബോധം കേരളത്തിലെ മലയാളികൾക്കിടയിലുണ്ടാക്കുക എന്നതാണു് മലയാളം വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകരുടെ  സംഗമം കൊണ്ടുള്ള പ്രധാന ഉദ്ദേശം. അതിനൊപ്പം തന്നെ നിരവധി വർഷങ്ങളായി ലോകത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ കോണുകളിലിരുന്നു് മലയാളം വിക്കിപദ്ധികളിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന  വിക്കിപ്രവർത്തകർ തമ്മിൽ നേരിട്ടു് കാണുകയും അവരുടെ അനുഭവങ്ങൾ പങ്കു് വെക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുക എന്ന ഉദ്ദേശവും ഉണ്ടു്.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;മലയാളം വിക്കിപദ്ധതികളുടെ ഇന്നോളമുള്ള ചരിത്രമെടുത്തു് പരിശോധിച്ചാൽ ഇതിന്റെ സജീവപ്രവർത്തകരിലെ ഭൂരിപക്ഷം പേരും പ്രവാസി മലയാളികളാണു് എന്നു് കാണാം. കേരളത്തിലുള്ള മലയാളികൾക്കു് ഇന്റർനെറ്റുമായുള്ള പരിചയം കുറവായതു്, ഇത്തരം സംരഭങ്ങളെ കുറിച്ചു് അറിവില്ലാത്തതു്, മലയാളം ടൈപ്പു് ചെയ്യാൻ അറിയാത്തതു്, മലയാളത്തിലും വിക്കിപദ്ധതികൾ നിലവിലുണ്ടു് എന്നു് അറിയാത്തതു് മൂലം, ഇങ്ങനെ നിരവധി കാരണങ്ങൾ കൊണ്ടാകാം കേരളത്തിലുള്ള മലയാളികൾ ഇതിൽ നിന്നു് അകന്നു് നിൽക്കുന്നതു്. ഈ സ്ഥിതി മാറെണ്ടതുണ്ടു്. മലയാലത്തിലുള്ള വിക്കിപദ്ധതികൾ ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്തേണ്ടതും ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ അതിലേക്കു് സംഭാവന ചെയ്യേണ്ടതും 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type='text'>Making Clear Type Display</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="line-height:22px; padding:10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx" target="_blank" title="Microsoft ClearType"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ClearType&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a Microsoft font display technology that dramatically improves font display on Windows XP ( for LCD monitor user ). ClearType is using &lt;i&gt;Microsoft’s font-rendering technology to &lt;/i&gt;deliver improvement on font display quality over traditional form of font smoothing or anti aliasing. Plus more, ClearType also can improves readability and smoothness on color LCD displays with a digital interface.&lt;br /&gt;Here is the comparison of  display quality before turn on ClearType tuning and after turn on ClearType tuning:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Clear Type Font Display" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_017MRInn4m4/SuWQG5pvQXI/AAAAAAAAHSM/IJWGeUnxMtg/s640/clearType.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see on the comparison picture, turning on cleartype font rendering technology can make your LCD display font look readability nicer and sharper than before compare without typeclear technology.&lt;br /&gt;To install TypeClear on XP is simple. Just simple download and install the application only. Then you can proceed to choose the various microsoft ClearType font display option to suit the best font display on LCD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;How to Enable ClearType for Screen font on Windows XP :&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;b&gt;Start&lt;/b&gt;, click &lt;b&gt;Control Panel&lt;/b&gt;, click Appearance and Themes, and then click Display.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;On the &lt;b&gt;Appearance&lt;/b&gt; tab, click &lt;b&gt;Effects&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Click to select the &lt;b&gt;Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts&lt;/b&gt; check box, and then click &lt;b&gt;ClearType&lt;/b&gt; in the list.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3757080508661835545-3325909344467832249?l=kasaragoden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/feeds/3325909344467832249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/10/making-clear-type-display.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/3325909344467832249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/3325909344467832249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/10/making-clear-type-display.html' title='Making Clear Type Display'/><author><name>Rajesh Odayanchal</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/101772826161461743826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1qIcEtBxw08/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJXA/gNsAryPS3ao/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_017MRInn4m4/SuWQG5pvQXI/AAAAAAAAHSM/IJWGeUnxMtg/s72-c/clearType.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3757080508661835545.post-3549463064402724176</id><published>2009-10-26T04:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T05:41:25.546-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വരമൊഴി : മലയാളം ടൈപ്പിങ് സഹായി'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anjali Old Lipi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Varamozhi'/><title type='text'>വരമൊഴി : മലയാളം ടൈപ്പിങ് സഹായി</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="line-height: 22px; padding: 10px;"&gt;Transliteration scheme used by Varamozhi is called Mozhi. It uses a unique English character sequence for each Malayalam letter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Click to enlarge Mozhi key sequence image" border="0" src="http://images.wikia.com/varamozhi/images/e/ef/Lipi.png" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin:10px; color:#333; padding:10px; border:2px solid #900; text-align:center"&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/143734273/76376e18/AnjaliFontInstaller10303.html" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to install malayalam font&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin:10px;"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Example :  ഉദാഹരണം&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding:5px; color:#5a5a5a; font-size:16px; line-height:22px; border:1px solid #333"&gt;thannathilla paranuLLukaattuvaan_&lt;br /&gt;onnumE naranupaayameeSwaran_&lt;br /&gt;innu bhaashayathapoor_NNamingahO,&lt;br /&gt;vannupOm pizhayumar_ththhaSankayaal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;naLini:kumaaranaaSaan_ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding:5px; color:#5a5a5a; font-size:16px; line-height:22px; border:1px solid #333;" &gt;തന്നതില്ല പരനുള്ളുകാട്ടുവാന്‍‌&lt;br /&gt;ഒന്നുമേ നരനുപായമീശ്വരന്‍‌&lt;br /&gt;ഇന്നു ഭാഷയതപൂര്‍‌ണ്ണമിന്നഹോ,&lt;br /&gt;വന്നുപോം പിഴയുമര്‍‌ത്ഥശങ്കയാല്‍‌.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;നളിനി:കുമാരനാശാന്‍‌&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Most confused conjuncts &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;ങ്ക &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ngka &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;nka&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;ഞ്ച &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;njcha &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ncha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;ണ്ട &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;NTa &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;മ്പ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;mpa &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Using ~ for chandrakkala &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A tilde ('~') after the letters n, l, L, N, r, R and m avoids a&lt;br /&gt;ചില്ല്‌ (or അനുസ്വാരം) and forces the letter followed by a&lt;br /&gt;chandrakkala. You need not put "~" after other letters, or any&lt;br /&gt;കൂട്ടക്ഷരം ending in these letters; but putting it doesn't harm.&lt;br /&gt;Examples:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; avan~ = അവന്&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; avan = അവന്&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;വാക്കുകള്‍‍ക്കിടയില്‍‍ ചില്ലക്ഷരമെഴുതുവാന്‍‍... &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഒരു വാക്കിനിടയ്ക്ക്‌ ചില്ലക്ഷരം എഴുതേണ്ടിവരുമ്പോഴാണ്‌ '_' ഉപയോഗിക്കാറുള്ളത്‌.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'പിന്‍‍നിലാവ്‌'&lt;br /&gt;എന്ന വാക്കു ശ്രദ്ധിക്കൂ. മംഗ്ലീഷില്‍‍ pinnilaav~ എന്നാണെഴുതേണ്ടത്‌&lt;br /&gt;എന്നാവും ആദ്യം തോന്നുക. പക്ഷെ, കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിനൊരു സംശയമുണ്ടാവും; അതിനെ&lt;br /&gt;'പിന്നിലാവ്‌' എന്ന്‌ വായിച്ചാലെന്തെന്ന്‌. സംശയം ന്യായമാണ്‌. ഈയൊരു&lt;br /&gt;ആശയക്കുഴപ്പത്തിനിടയാക്കാത്ത വിധം പ്രശ്നം തീര്‍‍ക്കുന്നതിനാണ്‌ '_'&lt;br /&gt;(underscore) എന്ന Zero Width Space (ZWS) - വലിപ്പമില്ലാ ചിഹ്നം.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചു&lt;br /&gt;നോക്കിയാല്‍‍ ഒരു കാര്യം മനസ്സിലാവും - 'ന്ന' എന്നുള്ള ഉച്ചാരണമല്ല 'ന്‍ന'&lt;br /&gt;എന്നതിന്റെ. 'ന്‍ന' എന്നതിന്‌ 'ന്‍'-ഉം 'ന'-ക്കും ഇടയ്ക്ക്‌ സൂക്ഷ്മമായൊരു&lt;br /&gt;നിറുത്തുണ്ട്‌. ആ നിറുത്താണ്‌ Zero Width Space അഥവാ '-' കൊണ്ട്‌&lt;br /&gt;കാണിക്കുന്നത്‌.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഈ ചിഹ്നം ഉപയോഗിക്കേണ്ടി വരുന്നതിന്‌ കുറച്ചുദാഹരണങ്ങളിതാ:&lt;br /&gt;കണ്‍‌‍‍വെട്ടം = kaN_vettam&lt;br /&gt;കല്‍‌‍‍വിളക്ക്‌ = kal_viLakk~&lt;br /&gt;പൊന്‍‌‍നാളം = pon_naaLam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'-' ഉപയോഗിക്കാതെ, തെറ്റായരീതിയില്‍‍ എഴുതിയാലുണ്ടാവുന്ന വാക്കുകള്‍‍ നോക്കുക:&lt;br /&gt;കണ്വെട്ടം = kaNveTTam&lt;br /&gt;കല്വിളക്ക്‌ = kalviLakk~&lt;br /&gt;പൊന്നാളം = ponnaaLam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;വിസര്‍‍ഗം &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When using വിസര്‍‍ഗം, use 'H', and not ':'. For example, "നാരായണായ നമഃ" = "&lt;tt&gt;naaraayaNaaya namaH&lt;/tt&gt;". We use ":" also to denote a colon, so it is necessary to distinguish the two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Keeping some words in English itself &lt;/h2&gt;Put those words in curly braces - {}. Then Varamozhi will not do any&lt;br /&gt;transliteration on the text inside the curly braces and will remove&lt;br /&gt;those curly braces. So if the input is &lt;span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: courier new;"&gt;ente {school}&lt;/span&gt; the output will be &lt;span style="color: #ffffcc;"&gt;എന്റെ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffffcc;"&gt;school&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Use of '@' character &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An at character ('@') can be used where you need an "empty&lt;br /&gt;consonant". Like, when you need to show the symbol of a vowel instead&lt;br /&gt;of the vowel itself. Example&amp;nbsp;: 'ാ‍' ദീര്‍‍ഘത്തിന്റെ ചിഹ്നം =&lt;tt&gt; "@aa deerghatthinte chihnam".&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;ദീര്‍‍ഘസ്വരം &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The long forms of swarams "a", "i" and "u" can be created by either&lt;br /&gt;capitalizing (A, I, U) or by doubling (aa, ii, uu). For "e" and "o",&lt;br /&gt;only capitalization will work (E and O). "ee" and "oo" are equivalent&lt;br /&gt;to "I" and "U" respectively, due to our historical usage of these&lt;br /&gt;combinations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;ld style of chillus in Unicode&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use two underscores after the letter. For example, 'n__' gets 'ന്‍' in old representation using ZWJ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Escaping advanced conversion rules by '#' &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Varamozhi has got advanced conversion rules along with basic&lt;br /&gt;transliteration key sequences. They help to write common English words&lt;br /&gt;like 'school' or 'bus' as it is, rather than writting them as 'skooL'&lt;br /&gt;or 'bas'. These rules are also used to define more than one key&lt;br /&gt;sequence for one character. Example 'ngka' = 'nka'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But sometimes this rules will prevent you from writting some rare words the&lt;br /&gt;way you want. A pound (sharp/hash) character ('#') at the end of a word&lt;br /&gt;(or part of word) will tell Varamozhi not to be too smart for&lt;br /&gt;translating the previous word - means, it turns off all the "special&lt;br /&gt;rules".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, 'van' = 'vaan' = വാന്‍ in Varamozhi. But, say in a poem stanza, you need വന്‍. Then write it as 'van#'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note that this will turn off all rules - Not only English/Malayalam conversion. To see what I mean, try the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;thanguka thanguka# thangnguka#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;samyamam samyamam# sam_yamam#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;patti patti#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Rationale behind Mozhi scheme &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My primary principle behind the scheme is this: The most intuitive&lt;br /&gt;scheme for Malayalees. As you can see this principle is different from&lt;br /&gt;phonetically accurate scheme. Traditionally our transliteration habits&lt;br /&gt;are different from that of North. For example, consider the characters&lt;br /&gt;ത, റ്റ &amp;amp; ച.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To simplify the things, Mozhi uses the rule was to append 'h' after the letters for ഖരം and മൃദു to get അതിഖരം and ഘോഷം.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I didn't want to give different sequence for conjunct letters&lt;br /&gt;other than their component letters. So, if 'Ta' is ട then 'TTa' should&lt;br /&gt;be 'ട്ട'. This simplifies what the user needs to remember.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With&lt;br /&gt;these rules in mind, we have following Malayalam letters: ട, ഡ, ത, ദ,&lt;br /&gt;റ്റ and just two English letters: d, t to spare (I am not considering&lt;br /&gt;അതിഖരം and ഘോഷം now, because they can be produced by the 'h' rule).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since malayalees are very adamant about 'ത = tha', we cannot use 't'&lt;br /&gt;for 'ട', because, then 'th' will become 'ഠ' by the h-rule. So, 't' was&lt;br /&gt;given to 'റ്റ' which does not have aspiration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'ത വര്ഗ്ഗം'&lt;br /&gt;letters are more used in the language than the 'ട വര്ഗ്ഗം'. So 'ട&lt;br /&gt;വര്ഗ്ഗം' had to be compromised with uppercase letters which was the&lt;br /&gt;only available choice left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look at the scheme there is&lt;br /&gt;one more symmetry. That is, 'ത വര്ഗ്ഗം' is all small case and 'ട&lt;br /&gt;വര്ഗ്ഗം' is just the corresponding uppercase. This also help people to&lt;br /&gt;memorize the scheme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3757080508661835545-3549463064402724176?l=kasaragoden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/feeds/3549463064402724176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/3549463064402724176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/3549463064402724176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html' title='വരമൊഴി : മലയാളം ടൈപ്പിങ് സഹായി'/><author><name>Rajesh Odayanchal</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/101772826161461743826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1qIcEtBxw08/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJXA/gNsAryPS3ao/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3757080508661835545.post-8466498620429925056</id><published>2009-09-13T22:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T01:40:48.275-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='How to configure your PC to view Malayalam Text'/><title type='text'>How to configure your PC to view Malayalam Text</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #333333; font-size: 16px; padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="492" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_017MRInn4m4/TGTwd8SNF6I/AAAAAAAAIPU/GluYbrhHuLE/s640/chayilyam-malayalam-configuration.jpg" width="533" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #5a5a5a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;You need to get a &lt;b&gt;unicode malayalam font&lt;/b&gt; installed on your computer to read Malayalam content on the web. Here is a step-by-step guide to download and install a Malayalam unicode font.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Font Installation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://indulekha.com/AnjaliOldLipi-0.730.ttf" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;CLICK HERE&lt;/a&gt; to download the Malayalam unicode font &lt;b&gt;AnjaliOldLipi&lt;/b&gt; to your computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Go to the Fonts folder: &lt;b&gt;My Computer&amp;gt; C&amp;gt;Windows&lt;/b&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;b&gt;Fonts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Copy the downloaded font and &lt;b&gt;paste &lt;/b&gt;it here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Browser Settings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;INTERNET EXPLORER USERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Start Internet Explorer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Go to: &lt;b&gt;Tools&amp;gt; Internet Options&amp;gt; Fonts&amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Select Malayalam in Language Script&amp;gt; Select Anjali Old Lipi in&lt;br /&gt;Webpage Font&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Click OK and OK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MOZILLA FIREFOX USERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Start Mozilla Firefox&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Go to: &lt;b&gt;Tools&amp;gt; Options&amp;gt; Content&amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt; Select&lt;br /&gt;Anjali Old Lipi in Fonts &amp;amp; Colors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Font Size: 16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Click OK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://chayilyam.com/ml/mozilla-settings.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to see the complete Settings&lt;/a&gt; of Mozilla Firefox. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For mozilla use this &lt;a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/873/"&gt;add-ons to render malayalam&lt;/a&gt; font better in the browser &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOOGLE CHROME USERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Start Google Chrome&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Click the spanner image at the right top corner and go to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Options&amp;gt; Minor Tweaks&amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt; Change Font And&lt;br /&gt;Language Settings&amp;gt; Select Anjali Old Lipi in Fonts and&lt;br /&gt;Encoding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Click OK, Click Close.&lt;br /&gt;4. Now you can read the Malayalam script on PIUSGIRI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Free Malayalam Fonts : &lt;a href="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04.1.zip" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download Latest Firefox Mozilla Browser :&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html"&gt;Mozilla Firefox download ലിങ്ക്&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3757080508661835545-8466498620429925056?l=kasaragoden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/feeds/8466498620429925056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-configure-your-pc-to-view.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/8466498620429925056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/8466498620429925056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-configure-your-pc-to-view.html' title='How to configure your PC to view Malayalam Text'/><author><name>Rajesh Odayanchal</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/101772826161461743826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1qIcEtBxw08/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJXA/gNsAryPS3ao/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_017MRInn4m4/TGTwd8SNF6I/AAAAAAAAIPU/GluYbrhHuLE/s72-c/chayilyam-malayalam-configuration.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3757080508661835545.post-1116681834746346543</id><published>2009-08-28T01:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-28T01:00:16.767-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Onam</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Happy Onam to all&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3757080508661835545-1116681834746346543?l=kasaragoden.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/feeds/1116681834746346543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/08/happy-onam.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/1116681834746346543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3757080508661835545/posts/default/1116681834746346543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kasaragoden.blogspot.com/2009/08/happy-onam.html' title='Happy Onam'/><author><name>Rajesh Odayanchal</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/101772826161461743826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1qIcEtBxw08/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJXA/gNsAryPS3ao/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3757080508661835545.post-5608273460264563395</id><published>2009-08-27T05:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-27T05:43:45.827-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quotes'/><title type='text'>Quotes</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1&gt;Cool Quotes&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a name="Ability" id="Ability"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ability&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Half&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 3. He sites Virgil, Aeneid, v, 19 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;They are able because they think they are able.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Virgil&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Absence" id="Absence"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Absence&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 5. He sites Plautus: Trinummus, IV, c. 190 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Speak no evil of an absent friend. (&lt;em&gt;Non male loquare absenti amico.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plautus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 5. He sites Richard Hilles: Commonplace book, c. 1535--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Seldom seen, soon forgotten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Richard Hilles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 6. He sites Thomas Campbell: Absence, 1824.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The pain without the peace of death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plautus, on absence&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 6.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The absent are as good as dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Latin Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 6.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The absent and the dead have no friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Spanish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.izzy.com/~patri/quotes/sex_love.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Absence makes the heart go wander.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="AbstemiousnessAndGluttony" id="AbstemiousnessAndGluttony"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Abstemiousness And Gluttony&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;J. K. Galbraith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:fortune--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Orson Welles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 7. He sites Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 460. He sites Pope Xystus I: The Ring, c. 150--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Gluttony hinders chastity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Pope Xystus I&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 460. He sites: English Proverb, traced by Apperson to c. 1535.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Gluttony slays more than the sword.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;English Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 461. He sites Henry IV of France (1553 - 1610).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry IV of France&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 278, quote 13. They cite Molière, Amphitryon, III, i--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;One must eat to live, and not live to eat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Molière&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Plutarch's Morals, Moralia. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. Corrected and Revised by William W. Goodwin, with an Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5 Volumes. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878). http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0062.01--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;How hard is it to persuade the belly, that hath no ears?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cato the Elder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Accident" id="Accident"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Accident&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 8. He sites G. E. Lessing: Emilia Galotti, IV, 1772--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. E. Lessing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Achievement" id="Achievement"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Achievement&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 9.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No man has lived to much purpose unless he has built a house, begotten a son, or written a book.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Italian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Acquaintance" id="Acquaintance"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Acquaintance&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: "Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance," and I have found his words true.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frank Swinnerton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 9. He sites Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne, 1788 (Based on an old Scotch song, and first found in a letter to Mrs. Dunlop, December 17)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Should auld acquaintance be forgot,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And never brought to min'?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should auld acquaintance be forgot,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And days o' lang syne?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Burns&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 9. He sites Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp, 1863.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexander Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acquaintance,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 9.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Action" id="Action"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Action&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There are two kinds of people: those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done, and those who haven't time to write about it because they're out doing it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Richard Flournoy and Lewis R. Foster&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 10. He sites Voltaire: Letter to an unknown correspondent, Jan. 5, 1759--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I plow, but I do not write about plowing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 10. He sites Frederick The Great: Letter to J. L. D'Alembert, Sept. 30, 1783.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frederick The Great&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 10. He sites Benjamin Disraeli: Lothair, III, 1870.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Disraeli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"You Don't Say" by Fred Gielow (isbn 0-9603938-2-X) pg. 205--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in times of moral crisis, do nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dante&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Preface to the Fourth Volume of the Original Quarto Edition.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/34534.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Theodore Roosevelt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/4396.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"He means well" is useless unless he does well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plautus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 52, Part 2, near footnote 33.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Getting Things Done," by David Allen, ISBN 0-14-200028-0, pg. 242--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George F. Nordenholt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Lawrence of Arabia," by David Lean, as cited by Jon N. Hall in "Where's the 'Do Nothing Congress' When You Need Them?" March 23, 2009 http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/wheres_the_do_nothing_congress.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Colonel Brighton&lt;/em&gt;: Look, sir, we can't just do nothing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;General Allenby&lt;/em&gt;: Why not? It's usually best.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;David Lean&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://quotationspage.com/quote/25376.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edmund Burke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Actor" id="Actor"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Actor&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 11. He sites Timothy Dwight: An Essay on the Stage, 1824.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Actors are a nuisance in the earth, the very offal of society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Timothy Dwight&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Adam" id="Adam"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Adam&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In the Garden of Eden sat Adam,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Massaging the bust of his madam,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He chuckled with mirth,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For he knew that on earth,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were only two boobs and he had 'em.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 12.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;What could Adam have done to God that made Him put Eve in the garden?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Polish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Adjective" id="Adjective"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Adjective&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 13. He sites S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain): Pudd'n-head Wilson, XI, 1894.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 13. May be H. L. Mencken himself.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The adjective is the enemy of the noun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Admiration" id="Admiration"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Admiration&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 13. He sites Joseph Addison: The Spectator, Dec. 24, 1711.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joseph Addison&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Admiration,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Admonition" id="Admonition"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Admonition&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 14. He sites Publilius Syrus: Sententiae, c. 50 B. C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Publilius Syrus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Adultery" id="Adultery"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Adultery&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 15. He sites The code of Hammurabi, 2250 B. C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If a married woman shall be caught lying with another man, both shall be bound and thrown into the river.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Code of the Hammurabi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Proverbs 6:32 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;whoever does so destroys himself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Proverbs 6:32&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 16. He sites Samuel Johnson: Boswell's Life, October 10, 1779.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Between a man and his wife a husband's infidelity is nothing. The man imposes no bastards on his wife.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Adverb" id="Adverb"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Adverb&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 17.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The adverb is the enemy of the verb.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Adversity" id="Adversity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Adversity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 17. He sites James Howell: Proverbs, 1659--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In time of prosperity friends will be plenty;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In time of adversity not one in twenty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James Howell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 17.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dutch Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/49/61949.html, Following the Equator, ch. 39, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," (1897).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3139.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry C. Link&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Advertisement" id="Advertisement"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Advertisement&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Leacock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: you know what you are doing, but nobody else does.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edgar Watson Howe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 17. He sites Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1819.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Advice" id="Advice"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Advice&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Marquis de Lagrange&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 17. He sites Horace: De arte poetica, c. 8 B. C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whatever your advice, make it brief.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Horace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 18. He sites English Proverb, familiar since the 17th century.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Advice is least heeded when most needed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;English Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 18. He sites Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You may give him good advice, but who can give him wit to take it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 18. He sites Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband, II, 1895. Also, http://www.bartleby.com/66/14/64414.html (variation?)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 19.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beware the advice of a poor man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Spanish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 19.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Spanish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Fortune program. They cite Elwood P. Dowde (James Stewart), "Harvey"--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My mother once said to me, "Elwood" -- she always called me Elwood -- "Elwood, in this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." For years I tried smart. I recommend pleasant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Elwood P. Dowde (James Stewart), "Harvey"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/advice/ Danish Proverb--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Ask advice only of your equals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Danish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24373.html (15 Dec 2005)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Many receive advice, few profit by it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Publilius Syrus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/831.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francois De La Rochefoucauld&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 39, Part 3, near footnote 84.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[But] if the royal ear [of Theodoric] was open to the voice of truth, a saint and a philosopher are not always to be found at the ear of kings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Affectation" id="Affectation"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Affectation&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 19. He sites La Rochefoucauld: Maxims, 1665.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those we affect to have.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francois De La Rochefoucauld&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Age" id="Age"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Age&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 21. He sites Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance, II, 1893.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/age/ Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old -- many, many people do not have that privilege.'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Earl Warren&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/age/ Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Maurice Chevalier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/age/ Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Benchley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27633.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Aggression" id="Aggression"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Aggression&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29094.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Phaedrus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Agnostic" id="Agnostic"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Agnostic&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/82/39082.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Alone" id="Alone"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Alone&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 31. He sites George Pettie: Civil Conversations of Stefano Guazzo, 1581 (Quoted as a Proverb)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is better to be alone than in ill company.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Pettie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 31. He sites Thomas Browne: Religio Medici, II, 1642--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Browne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Ambition" id="Ambition"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ambition&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 33. He sites John Webster: Vanitas Vanitatum, 1612--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Vain the ambition of kings&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who seek by trophies and dead things&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To leave a living name behind,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And weave but nets to catch the wind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Webster&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Aristotle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24022.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Aesop&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="America" id="America"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;America&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog, or a woman, in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bruce Gould&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cedric Hardwicke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The European traveler in America -- at least if I may judge by myself -- is struck by two peculiarities: first, the extreme similarity of outlook in all parts of the United States (except the Old South), and secondly, the passionate desire of each locality to prove that it is peculiar and different from every other. The second of these is, of course, caused by the first.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"What's So Great About America", Dinesh D'Souza (isbn 0-89526-153-7), pg. 77.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Because I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Unidentified Indian Immigrant when asked why he wants to come to America&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/America/ Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frank Zappa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/America/ Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, February 13, 2006, pg. 47.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;America is not what's wrong with the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Donald Rumsfeld&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/73/829.html Attributed to ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE by Dwight D. Eisenhower in his final campaign address in Boston, Massachusetts, November 3, 1952. Unverified. The last two sentences are attributed to de Tocqueville's Democracy in America by Sherwood Eddy, The Kingdom of God and the American Dream, chapter 1, p. 6 (1941). This appears with minor variations in A Third Treasury of the Familiar, ed. Ralph L. Woods, p. 347 (1970), as "attributed to de Tocqueville but not found in his works."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexis de Tocqueville (Attributed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, December 29, 2008, pg. 24.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I'll start to worry about America's standing in the world when people from all corners of the earth cease to want to come here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ascribed to Paul Johnson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/vietnam-people-america-1821074-times-new--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;America is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bernard Lewis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="American" id="American"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;American&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/87/39087.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, August 13, 2007, pg. 31.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jonah Goldberg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="AmmianusMarcellinus" id="AmmianusMarcellinus"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ammianus Marcellinus&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 25, Part 7 (footnote 154).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Ammianus is so eloquent, that he writes nonsense.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Ancestry" id="Ancestry"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ancestry&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Abraham Lincoln&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Van Wyck Brooks&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2001.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plutarch&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 39. He sites Seneca: Hercules Furens, c. 50--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He who boasts of his descent praises another.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Seneca&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 41. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A mule always boasts that its ancestors were horses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 41. He sites Lord Chesterfield: Letter to his son, Feb. 22, 1748--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits and not by their age.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Anger" id="Anger"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Anger&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 43. He sites Seneca, De Ira, II--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The best cure for anger is delay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Seneca&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 43. He sites Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, XI, c. 170--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Marcus Aurelius&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 44. He sites Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac, 1734--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 44. He sites Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 44. He sites Ernst Von Feuchtersleben: Zur Diätetik der Seele, VI, 1838.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Anger is a vulgar passion directed to vulgar ends, and it always sinks to the level of its object.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ernst Von Feuchtersleben&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 44. He sites J. Kenfield Morley: Some Things I Believe, 1937--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The size of a man can be measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;J. Kenfield Morley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 44. He sites Hungarian Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He who is slow to anger is longer getting over it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hungarian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/anger/ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2350.html Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry Ward Beecher&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Plutarch's Morals, Moralia. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. Corrected and Revised by William W. Goodwin, with an Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5 Volumes. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878). http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0062.01--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An angry man [differs] from a madman only in the shorter time which his passion [endures].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cato the Elder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ephesians 4:26,27 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ephesians 4:26,27&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Animal" id="Animal"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Animal&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Josh Billings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The pig, if I am not mistaken,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supplies us sausage, ham, and bacon.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let others say his heart is big --&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I call it stupid of the pig.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ogden Nash&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), Mencken, pg. 461--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you have no trouble, buy a goat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Persian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 1, near footnote 10.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Answer" id="Answer"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 46. He sites German Proverb--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No answer is also an answer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Antiquity" id="Antiquity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Antiquity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 48. He sites OVID: Ars amatoria, III, c. 2 B. C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Let others praise ancient times; I am glad that I was born in these.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ovid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 48. He sites Charles Lamb (1775-1834).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Damn the age; I will write for antiquity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ascribed to Charles Lamb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Appearance" id="Appearance"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Appearance&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 50. He sites Alanus De Insulis: Parabolae, III, c. 1270--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All is not gold that shines like gold. (&lt;em&gt;Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other translations:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Everything that glitters is not gold.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alanus De Insulis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 50. He sites Chinese Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Three-tenths of a good appearance are due to nature; seven-tenths to dress.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Chinese Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Appeasement" id="Appeasement"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Appeasement&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/margaret_thatcher.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I . . . smell the stench of appeasement in the air.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Appetite" id="Appetite"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Appetite&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 50. He sites Ecclesiastes 6:7--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All man's efforts are for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ecclesiastes 6:7&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 51. He sites Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby, v. 1839--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Subdue your appetites, and you've conquered human nature.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles Dickens&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Applause" id="Applause"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Applause&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 51. He sites Edward Young: love of Fame, vi, 1728 1750--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When most the world applauds you, most beware:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Tis often less a blessing than a snare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Young&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Arab" id="Arab"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Arab&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 53. He sites Arab Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Better the oppression of Turks than the justice of Arabs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arab Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 1, near footnote 13.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The life of a wandering Arab [in the time of Gibbon] is a life of danger and distress; and though sometimes, by rapine or exchange, he may appropriate the fruits of industry, a private citizen in Europe is in the possession of more solid and pleasing luxury than the proudest emir, who marches in the field at the head of ten thousand horse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 1, near footnote 20.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 1, near footnote 25.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 1, near footnote 29.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 2, near footnote 43--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The character of Hatem is the perfect model of Arabian virtue: he was brave and liberal, an eloquent poet, and a successful robber . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Arms" id="Arms"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Arms&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 57. He sites Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince, XII--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The principal foundations of all states are good laws and good arms; and there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Niccolò Machiavelli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aristotle164123.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Aristotle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Army" id="Army"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Army&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 57. He sites Ascribed to Chabrias (c. 410 - 357 B. C.)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An army of stags led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a stag.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ascribed to Chabrias&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/18/61918.html, Colonel Sherburn, in Huckleberry Finn, ch. 22 (1884).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Arrogance" id="Arrogance"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Arrogance&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 49, Part 2, near footnote 52.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Their] minds were not yet humbled to their condition . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Art" id="Art"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Art&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Somerset Maugham&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 59. He sites Hippocrates: Aphorisms, c. 400 B.C. The saying is most familiar in the shortened Latin form: "Ars longa, vita brevis" == Art is long, and life short. See also, http://www.bartleby.com/66/34/28334.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hippocrates&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 59. He sites Dante: Inferno, XI, c. 1320--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dante&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 60. He sites Arthur Schopenhauer: Note-Books, c. 1850--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arthur Schopenhauer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 60. He sites John Ruskin: Modern Painters, v. 1860--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Ruskin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 62. He sites American Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;American Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/art/ Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edith Wharton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/G._K._Chesterton/ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33141.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Stick to Drawing Comics Monkey Brain," Scott Adams, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59184-185-2, pg. 347.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Scott Adams&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Artist" id="Artist"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Artist&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 63. He sites Antiphanes: Fragments, c. 350 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The gods that first taught artists their craft laid a great curse on mankind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Antiphanes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 64. He sites Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness, X, 1930--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Asceticism" id="Asceticism"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Asceticism&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 64. He sites Immanuel Kant: Lecture at Königsberg, 1775--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Immanuel Kant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 65. He sites T.B. Macaulay: John Dryden, 1828 (Edinburgh Review, Jan.)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A dominant religion is never ascetic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;T.B. Macaulay&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 65. He sites William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience, XI, 1902.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William James&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Asking" id="Asking"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Asking&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 65. He sites Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He that asketh faintly beggeth a denial.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 65. He sites Danish Proverb--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The man who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Danish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Aspiration" id="Aspiration"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Aspiration&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 65. He sites Alexander Pope: An Essay of Man, I, 1732--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Men would be angels, angels would be gods.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexander Pope&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 66. He sites Robert Browning: Bishop Blougram's Apology, 1855--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or what's Heaven for?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Browning&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 66. He sites Robert Browning: Bishop Blougram's Apology, 1855--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Browning&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 66. He sites R. W. Emerson: Society and Solitude, 1870--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Hitch your wagon to a star.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;R. W. Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Assassination" id="Assassination"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Assassination&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 62, Part 3, near footnote 49.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Assassination is the last resource of cowards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Association" id="Association"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Association&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 67. He sites Charles Lamb: Letter to S. T. Coleridge, Jan. 10, 1797--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles Lamb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 67. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Astrology" id="Astrology"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Astrology&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 67. He sites Shakespeare: King Lear, I, 1606--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Astrology] is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and teachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Astronomy" id="Astronomy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Astronomy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 52, Part 3, near footnote 60.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] sublime science of astronomy . . . elevates the mind of man to disdain his diminutive planet and momentary existence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Atheism" id="Atheism"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Atheism&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 68. He sites James I: Speech in the Star Chamber, June 20, 1616.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James I&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 68. He sites Francis Bacon: Essays, XVI, 1625 http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/22600.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth a man's mind about to religion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francis Bacon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 69. He sites C. C. Colton: Lacon, 1820.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;C. C. Colton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 69. He sites Herbert Spencer: Social Statistics, IV, 1851.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Herbert Spencer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Atheist" id="Atheist"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Atheist&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 69. He sites the Code of Manu, VIII, c. 100.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The kingdom that is infested by atheists is beset by famine and disease and soon perishes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Code of Manu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/q123099.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Attitude" id="Attitude"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Attitude&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/attitude/ Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Herm Albright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Audience" id="Audience"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Audience&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30561.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alben W. Barkley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Author" id="Author"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Author&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 72. He sites Samuel Johnson: The Plays of Shakespeare, pref., 1765.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 72. He sites Samuel Johnson: The Plays of Shakespeare, pref., 1765.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 73. He sites Leigh Hunt: The Indicator, XLI, 1821.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Leigh Hunt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1118.html (15 Dec 2005)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles de Montesquieu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Autobiography" id="Autobiography"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Autobiography&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Autobiography is now as common as adultery -- and hardly less reprehensible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lord Altrincham&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Awkwardness" id="Awkwardness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Awkwardness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 77. He sites Ninon de Enclos (1616 - 1706).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ninon de Enclos&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Baby" id="Baby"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Baby&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Fortune program also, http://www.envisagedesign.com/ohbaby/quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bachelor" id="Bachelor"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bachelor&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Don Quinn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/8/39208.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 79. He sites Henry VIII of England: On the beheading of Anne Boleyn, 1536--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cock's bones! now again I stand&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The jolliest bachelor i' th' land.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ascribed to Henry VIII of England: On the beheading of Anne Boleyn, 1536&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 79. He sites Benjamin Franklin: Letter to a young man, June 25, 1745.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A single man has not nearly the value he would have in [a] state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 79. He sites C. F. Browne (Artemus Ward): Artemus Ward: His Book, 1862.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An old bachelor is a poor critter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;C. F. Browne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 79. He sites "Author unidentified".--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 79. He sites Italian Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Praise all wives, but remain a bachelor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Italian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 79. He sites Sanskrit Proverb--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;So long as a man is without a wife he is only half a man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Sanskrit Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Backfire" id="Backfire"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Backfire&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.3.4.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For 'tis the sport to have the engineer&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoist with his own petard . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bad" id="Bad"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bad&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 80. He sites Juvenal: Satires, II, c. 110--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No man becomes bad all at once.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Juvenal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Balance" id="Balance"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Balance&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 16th edition, isbn 0-316-08277-5, pg. 3, quote 9. They cite Ptahhotpe, twenty-fourth century B.C., "The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 B.C.], maxim number 25--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ptahhotpe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bald" id="Bald"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bald&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 80. He sites Martial: Epigrams, x, c. 95--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Martial&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 80. He sites Hungarian Proverb--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Honest men grow gray; others grow bald.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hungarian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Banana" id="Banana"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Banana&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 81. He sites R. W. Emerson: Society and Solitude, 1870--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;R. W. Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Banker" id="Banker"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Banker&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 82. He sites Author unidentified.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Barbarian" id="Barbarian"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Barbarian&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 38, Part 1, near footnote 4.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The Gauls] derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bashfulness" id="Bashfulness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bashfulness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 84. He sites Robert Herrick: Hesperides, 1648--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who fears to ask doth teach to be deny'd.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Herrick&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 84. He sites Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 84. He sites French Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The bashful always lose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;French Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bastard" id="Bastard"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bastard&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 85. He sites Legal Maxim (Qui ex damnato coitu nascuntur, inter liberos non computantur), which presumably dates from Roman times.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Those born of sinful intercourse are not counted as children.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Legal Maxim&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Battle" id="Battle"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Battle&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 86. He sites The Duke of Wellington: Dispatch from the field of Waterloo, June, 1815.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Duke of Wellington: Despatch from the field of Waterloo, June, 1815&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 86. He sites M. I. Dragomiroff: Notes for Soldiers, c. 1890.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If your bayonet breaks, strike with the stock; if the stock gives way, hit with your fists; if your fists are hurt, bite with your teeth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;M. I. Dragomiroff: Notes for Soldiers, c. 1890&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Battlefield" id="Battlefield"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Battlefield&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 86. He sites R. E. Lee: To General A. P. Hill after the battle of Bristoe Station, Oct. 14, 1863 1815.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Well, well, General, bury these poor men, and let us say no more about it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;R. E. Lee: To General A. P. Hill after the battle of Bristoe Station, Oct. 14, 1863&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Beating" id="Beating"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Beating&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 88. He sites John Ray: English Proverbs, 1670.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more they're beaten the better they be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Ray&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Beauty" id="Beauty"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Beauty&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Ruskin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have any curiosity?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Penelope Gilliatt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 88. He sites Petronius Arbiter: Satyricon, XCIV, c. 50.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beauty and wisdom are seldom found together.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Petronius Arbiter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 88. He sites Tertullian: Women's Dress, c. 220.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Tertullian&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 89. He sites Torquato Tasso: Gerusalemme, IV, 1592.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Had she deigned to remove her veil, God Himself would have fallen in love with her.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Torquato Tasso&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 89. He sites George Herbert: Outlandish Proverbs, 1640.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Herbert&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 90. He sites George MacDonald: Within and Without, IV, 1855.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beauty and sadness always go together.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George MacDonald&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 90. He sites R. W. Emerson: The Conduct of Life, VII, 1860.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;R. W. Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 91. He sites Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Grey, 1891.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 91. He sites Chinese Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Chinese Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 91. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beauty is a good letter of introduction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 91. He sites Spanish Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beauty and chastity are always quarreling.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Spanish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 3, near footnote 69.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Beauty is] an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bed" id="Bed"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bed&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 92. He sites John Clarke: Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Loath to bed, and loath to rise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Clarke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 92. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No bed is big enough to hold three.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bedroom" id="Bedroom"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bedroom&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 92. He sites Balzac: The Physiology of Marriage, 1830.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart -- or found happiness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Balzac&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Beef" id="Beef"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Beef&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 93. He sites Scottish Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beefsteaks and porter are gude belly mortar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Scottish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Beer" id="Beer"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Beer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 93. He sites Anon.: Come, Landlord, Fill a Flowing Bowl, c. 1650.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He that drinks strong beer,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And goes to bed mellow,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lives as he ought to live,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And dies a hearty fellow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 93. He sites Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Charles Yancey, 1815--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whisky which kills one-third of our citizens, and ruins their families.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 93. He sites George Arnold: Beer, c. 1855.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Here&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With my beer&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sit,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While golden moments flit:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alas!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They pass&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unheeded by:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as they fly,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being dry,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sit, idly sipping here&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My beer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Arnold&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 93. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is no bad beer: some kinds are better than others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Beethoven" id="Beethoven"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Beethoven&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 94. He sites Ludwig van Beethoven: Letter to Ferdinand Ries, Dec. 22, 1822.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beethoven can write music, thank God -- but he can do nothing else on earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ludwig van Beethoven&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Beggar" id="Beggar"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Beggar&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 94. He sites F. W. Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra, II, 1885.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;F. W. Nietzsche&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 94. He sites Japanese Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Japanese Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Beginning" id="Beginning"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Beginning&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 95. He sites Plato: Laws, v, c. 360 B.C. (Cited as a proverb)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The beginning is half of the whole.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plato&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 94. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Every beginning is hard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Belief" id="Belief"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Belief&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 96. He sites: Commonly ascribed to Tertullian; what he actually said (De Carne Christi, c. 210) was "Et mortuus est Dei Filius; prorsus credible, quia ineptum est," == And dead is the Son of God: that can be believed only because it is absurd; the saying appears in various forms, e.g., "Credible est, quia ineptum est," and "Certum est, quia impossible est."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I believe it because it is absurd.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Tertullian (ascribed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 96. He sites Michel De Montaigne: Essays, I, 1580.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We believe nothing so firmly as what we least know.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Michel de Montaigne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 96. He sites Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 96. He sites Dinah Mulock Craik: A Woman's Thoughts, 1858 (Quoted as "a cynical saying").--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dinah Mulock Craik&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 97. He sites Portuguese Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never tell all that you know, or do all that you can, or believe all that you hear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Portuguese Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, September 10, 2007, pg. 49. They quote this from "Shattered Tablets," by David Klinghoffer, published by Doubleday.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Belief forms behavior.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;David Klinghoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1073.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30151.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Belisarius" id="Belisarius"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Belisarius&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 41, Part 6, near footnote 111.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Belly" id="Belly"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Belly&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 97. He sites George Herbert: Outlandish Proverbs, 1640.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A full belly neither fights nor flies well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Herbert&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Betrayal" id="Betrayal"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Betrayal&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 92, quote 6. They cite "From Suetonius, 'Lives of the Caesars, Julius, 82'. [Gaius] Julius Caesar, 100-44 B.C. Suetonius reports that Caesar said this in Greek.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You also, Brutus my son. (&lt;em&gt;Et tu, Brute!&lt;/em&gt;, though Caesar reportedly said this in Greek).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Julius Caesar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Betting" id="Betting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Betting&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 100. He sites Author unidentified--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Biography" id="Biography"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Biography&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Biography is one of the new terrors of death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Arbuthnot&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Birth" id="Birth"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Birth&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Devil's Dictionary, pg. 12--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Birth,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. The first and direst of all disasters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Blame" id="Blame"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Blame&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 109. He sites R. W. Emerson: Compensation, 1841--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Blame is safer than praise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;R. W. Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Blessing" id="Blessing"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Blessing&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 109. He sites Ecclesiasticus XI, 28, c. 180 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Judge none blessed before his death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ecclesiasticus 11:28&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Irish Blessings," Compiled by Ashley Shannon, isbn 0-7624-0450-7, pg. 52.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;May your glass be ever full.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May the roof over your head be always strong.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And may you be in heaven half an hour&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the Devil knows you're dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Irish Blessings," Compiled by Ashley Shannon, isbn 0-7624-0450-7, pg. 54.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;May you live as long as you want,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And never want as long as you live.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Irish Blessings," Compiled by Ashley Shannon, isbn 0-7624-0450-7, pg. 70.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;May your neighbors respect you,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trouble neglect you,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The angels protect you,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And heaven accept you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Irish Blessings," Compiled by Ashley Shannon, isbn 0-7624-0450-7, pg. 123.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;May the Good Lord take a liking to you, . . . but not too soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Numbers 6:24-26--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The LORD bless you and keep you;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Numbers 6:24-26&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Book" id="Book"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Book&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Reading all the good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;René Descartes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Anatole France&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Evelyn Waugh&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry Kissinger, of his memoirs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Last Lion, Volume 1," by William Manchester, ISBN: 0316545031, pg. 31--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them -- peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on their shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you will at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), Mencken, pg. 117. Mencken sites, Thomas Carlyle: Letter to R. Mitchell, pg. 1820.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, or the Phoenicians, or whoever invented books.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Carlyle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 116. He sites Martin Luther: Table-Talk, DCCCCXI, 1569--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Martin Luther&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 116. He sites Francis Bacon: Essays, II, 1597.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francis Bacon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 116. He sites Joseph Addison: The Spectator, July 23, 1711 (Quotes as "the famous Greek proverb." The context shows that "great" is intended to mean large, not meritorious).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A great [large] book is a great evil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joseph Addison&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 117. He sites Voltaire: Letter to an unknown correspondent, January 5, 1759.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 117. He sites Thomas Carlyle: Letter to his mother, March 17, 1817.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My books are friends that never fail me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Carlyle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 118. He sites Thomas Carlyle: Journal, May 29, 1839.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Carlyle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/G._K._Chesterton/ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33140.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A room without books is like a body without a soul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bore" id="Bore"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bore&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Devil's Dictionary, pg. 12--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bore,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 119. He sites Voltaire: L'Enfant prodique, 1736.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Boredom" id="Boredom"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Boredom&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 120. He sites Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Idea, IV.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arthur Schopenhauer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 120. He sites C. C. Colton: Lacon, 1820.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;C. C. Colton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 120. He sites Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness, IV, 1930.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/boredom/ George Saunders, last words--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Saunders, last words&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="BorrowingAndLending" id="BorrowingAndLending"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Borrowing And Lending&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 120. He sites G. E. Lessing: Nathan der Weise, II, 1779.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Borrowing is not much better than begging.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. E. Lessing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 120. He sites Shakespeare: Hamlet, I, scene3, c. 1601--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Neither a borrower nor a lender be;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For loan oft loses both itself and friend,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Boy" id="Boy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Boy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 122. He sites Plato: Laws, VII, c. 360 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plato&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say, "Willie is no good; I'll sell him."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Leacock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 122. He sites English Proverb, not recorded before the XIX century.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;English Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 122. He sites Ambrose Bierce: In the San Francisco News Letter, 1869--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 123. He sites Author unidentified.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A boy is a cross between a god and a goat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bravery" id="Bravery"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bravery&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 124. He sites Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/36386.html Jonathan Swift English essayist, novelist, &amp;amp; satirist (1667 - 1745)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jonathan Swift&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Breeding" id="Breeding"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Breeding&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 127. He sites Scottish Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Birth's gude but breeding's better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Scottish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Brevity" id="Brevity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Brevity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Blaise Pascal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 127. He sites Horace: De arte poetica, c. 8 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do you wish to instruct? Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts and the more easily retain them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Horace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 127. He sites H. H. Brackenridge: Modern Chivalry, 1792.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In order to speak short upon any subject, think long.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. H. Brackenridge&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 127. He sites Spanish Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;That which is brief, if it be good, is good twice over.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Spanish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 131. He sites Spanish Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Spanish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 202, quote 33. They cite William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", II, ii, 90.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Brevity is the soul of wit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bridegroom" id="Bridegroom"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bridegroom&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.izzy.com/~patri/quotes/sex_love.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A bridegroom is a guy who has lost his liberty in the pursuit of happiness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="British" id="British"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;British&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lord Thomson of Fleet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Building" id="Building"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Building&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 130. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Build and borrow,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sackful of sorrow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Bauen und Borgen,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ein Sack voll Sorgen.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Burden" id="Burden"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Burden&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 131. He sites George Herbert: Outlandish Proverbs. 1640.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Herbert&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Bureaucracy" id="Bureaucracy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bureaucracy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 131. He sites Thomas Jefferson: Letter to William Ludlow, 1824.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/bureaucracy/ Eugene McCarthy--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eugene McCarthy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/bureaucracy/ Milton Friedman--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Milton Friedman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html Robert Conquest's Second Law of Politics--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Conquest&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, September 10, 2007, pg. 30. "Democracy in America," by Alexis de Tocqueville, Translated by Henry Reeve, published 1904, page 812.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexis de Tocqueville&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Business" id="Business"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Business&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Laurence J. Peter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Dilbert Principle, pg. 14--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Scott Adams&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Herbert J. Muller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The egalitarianism of the present tax structure is thought to be seriously dampening individual effort, initiative, and inspiration . . . [it] destroys ambition, penalizes success, discourages investment to create new jobs, and may well turn a nation of risk-taking entrepreneurs into a nation of softies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Fred Maytag II&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Planned Economy: Where everything is included in the plans except economy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Carey McWilliams&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No matter what you think your job is, your job is to make your boss's life easier.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Northcote Parkinson ("Parkinson's Law")&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Melvin Maddocks&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations", isbn 0-14-007568-2, pg. 53--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Committee: A group of the unfit appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Carl C. Byers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it's a depression when you lose your own.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Harry S. Truman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Modern Humorous Quotations, pg. 161.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;J. K. Galbraith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 113, quote 21. They cite Cornelius Tacitus (A.D. c. 56 - c. 120). "Annals, VI, 39".--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Tacitus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes "Isms" (2006) by Gregory Bergman, p.105--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Maynard Keynes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTFkMDQyODgyODU2ZGYzYzg0OTI3NmNhMGFiOWYzMjc=--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank has a problem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," by Adam Smith, Book 1, Chapter 10.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] clamour and sophistry of merchants and manufacturers easily persuade [the people], that the private interest of a part, and of a subordinate part, of the society, is the general interest of the whole.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Adam Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Busy" id="Busy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Busy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 134. He sites John Dryden: The Medal, 1682.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;None are so busy as the fool and knave.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Dryden&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 134. He sites Thomas Fuller: Gnomologia, 1732.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 135. He sites English Proverb, not recorded before the XIX century.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The busiest men have the most leisure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;English Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 135. He sites Byron: "The Two Foscari", iv, 1821--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The busy have no time for tears.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Byron&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Busybody" id="Busybody"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Busybody&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/%3Fq%3DN2E1MDYzNjdhNDk5YmZkY2MzMzhkNWM1ZWZjYWRiNzE National Review Bench Memos blog, 2/23/2009 11:37AM.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;C. S. Lewis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Buyer" id="Buyer"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Buyer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 136. He sites Legal Maxim.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Let the buyer beware. (Caveat emptor.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Legal Maxim&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cabbage" id="Cabbage"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cabbage&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 137. He sites Greek Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cabbage twice cooked is death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Greek Proverb.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Calm" id="Calm"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Calm&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then it's possible that you don't fully understand the situation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Calumny" id="Calumny"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Calumny&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.3.1.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Canada" id="Canada"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Canada&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I wish the British Government would give you Canada at once. It is fit for nothing but to breed quarrels.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lord Ashburton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Canada could have enjoyed:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English government,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French culture,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and American know-how.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead it ended up with:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English know-how,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French government,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and American culture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Robert Colombo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 139. He sites Napoleon I: "Diary of Pulteney Malcolm at St. Helena", Jan. 11, 1817.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Napoleon I&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Canadian" id="Canadian"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Canadian&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26237.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;J. Bartlet Brebner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Capitalist" id="Capitalist"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Capitalist&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, May 23, 2005, pg. 58.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Willi Schlamm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Carefulness" id="Carefulness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Carefulness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 143. He sites American Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you can't be good be careful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;American Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Carelessness" id="Carelessness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Carelessness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 143. He sites Hungarian Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hungarian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="CarolineofEngland" id="CarolineofEngland"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Caroline of England&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 144. He sites Anonymous: Verse circulated in London on the trial of the queen for adultery, 1820.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Most gracious queen, we thee implore&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To go away and sin no more,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if that effort be too great,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To go away at any rate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Anonymous: Verse circulated in London on the trial of Queen Caroline for adultery, 1820.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cartel" id="Cartel"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cartel&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," by Adam Smith, Book 1, Chapter 10.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Adam Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," by Adam Smith, Book 1, Chapter 10.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In a free trade, an effectual combination cannot be established but by the unanimous consent of every single trader, and it cannot last longer than every single trader continues of the same mind. The majority of a corporation can enact a bye-law, with proper penalties, which will limit the competition more effectually and more durably than any voluntary combination whatever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Adam Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Carthage" id="Carthage"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Carthage&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 43, Part 1, near footnote 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cash" id="Cash"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cash&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 144. He sites American Saying.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In God we trust; all others must pay cash.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;American Saying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Casuist" id="Casuist"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Casuist&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 145. He sites Terence: Phormio, VIII, c. 160 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Terrence, c. 160 B.C.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cat" id="Cat"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cat&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/100/731.21.html They cite Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne. (1533.1592), "Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.'--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/100/595.html, Algernon Charles Swinburne. (1837 - 1909), To a Cat.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Stately, kindly, lordly friend&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Condescend&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here to sit by me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Algernon Charles Swinburne, To a Cat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Java Programming Language, Fourth Edition," by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes. isbn 0-321-34980-6, pg. 481--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of £10. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rule 46, Oxford Union Society (circa 1997)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="CauseAndEffect" id="CauseAndEffect"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cause And Effect&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 148. He sites George Herbert: Outlandish Proverbs, 1640 (Later versions add: "for want of a rider the battle is lost, for want of a battle the kingdom is lost"). Note that Benjamin Franklin's version of this quote from Poor Richard's Almanac is often sited, but this version came before.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; and for want of a horse the rider is lost.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Herbert&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 148. He sites Byron: "Childe Harold", iv, 1818--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Byron&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 148. He sites Latin Phrase (A familiar logical fallacy).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;After this, therefore because of this. (Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Latin Phrase (A familiar logical fallacy)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Caution" id="Caution"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Caution&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 149. He sites Confucius: Analects, iv, c. 500 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The cautious seldom make mistakes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Confucius&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 149. He sites Italian Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Think much and often, speak little, and write less.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Italian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 149. He sites Latin Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If not chastely, then at least cautiously. (Nisi caste, saltem caute.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Latin Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:picture and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branxton,_New_South_Wales The sign was apparently created by the Branxton Lions Club.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Drive carefully. We have two cemeteries [but] no hospital.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Billboard outside of Branxton, New South Wales&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Celibacy" id="Celibacy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Celibacy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 150. He sites Thomas Love Peacock: Melincourt, vii, 1817.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Love Peacock&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cemetery" id="Cemetery"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cemetery&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 150. He sites Arthur Brisbane: The Book of Today, 1923.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arthur Brisbane&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 150. He sites German Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He who seeks equality should go to a cemetery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Centralization" id="Centralization"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Centralization&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 151. He sites Thomas Jefferson: Letter to William T. Barry, 1822.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Certainty" id="Certainty"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Certainty&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/98/39198.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 151. He sites Sanskrit Proverb.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Sanskrit Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2497.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30685.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Chance" id="Chance"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Chance&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ecclesiastes 9:11 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The race is not to the swift&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or the battle to the strong,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nor does food come to the wise&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or wealth to the brilliant&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or favor to the learned;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but time and chance happen to them all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ecclesiastes 9:11&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Change" id="Change"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Change&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2835.html They cite Socrates == Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Socrates&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Niccolò Machiavelli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, August 13, 2007, pg. 46.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Everything changes but the avant-garde.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Paul Valéry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Character" id="Character"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Character&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There are things about me you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand, things you shouldn't understand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Pee Wee Herman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ralph Waldo Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Eliot&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 154. He sites Jean Paul Richter: Titan, cx, 1803. Mencken's text is slightly different than that quoted here. I'm guessing it's due to a difference in translation. I prefer the text below.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jean Paul Richter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Platonicus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.fn.net/~degood/power.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Abraham Lincoln&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites "The Library" in The American Mercury, Jan 1929, pg. 124.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites A Carnival of Buncombe: Writings on Politics [1956], edited by Malcolm Moos, pg. 117--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 154. He sites Lord Chesterfield: Letter to his son, April 26, 1748.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 155.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When health is lost, something is lost;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When character is lost, all is lost!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 15, Part 6 (near footnote 103).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural level, and will resume those passions that seem the most adapted to its present condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Charity" id="Charity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Charity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 158. He sites Abraham Lincoln: Inaugural address, March 4, 1865. Also, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/lincoln2.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Abraham Lincoln&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 157. He sites Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 157. He sites Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac, 1752.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He gives twice that gives soon; i.e., he will soon be called to give again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 158. He sites Byron: Letter to Thomas Moore, April 2, 1823.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Byron&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 158. He sites R. W. Emerson: Self-Reliance, 1841.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;R. W. Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 158. He sites Lyof N. Tolstoy: "What Shall We Do?" 1891.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Leo Tolstoy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2267.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Hutton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Charm" id="Charm"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Charm&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Logan Pearsall Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/24/64324.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Chastity" id="Chastity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Chastity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 119, quote 9. They cite Saint Augustine, 354 - 430, "Confessions, VIII, 7"--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Saint Augustine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.izzy.com/~patri/quotes/sex_love.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Chaste makes waste.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 9, Part 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Although the progress of civilization has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favorable to the virtue of chastity . . . The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 161.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A reputation for chastity is necessary to a woman. Chastity itself is also sometimes useful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cheapness" id="Cheapness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cheapness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 161. He sites Thomas Paine: "The American Crisis, I," 1776 (Pennsylvania Journal, Dec. 19)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Paine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cheating" id="Cheating"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cheating&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 162.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He that cheats me once, shame on him; he that cheats me twice, shame on me. (&lt;em&gt;He that cheats me ance, shame fa' him; he that cheats me twice; shame fa' me.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Scottish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cheerfulness" id="Cheerfulness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cheerfulness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 16th edition, isbn 0-316-08277-5, pg. 3, quote 10. They cite Ptahhotpe, twenty-fourth century B.C., "The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 B.C.], maxim number 34--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be cheerful while you are alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ptahhotpe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Chicago" id="Chicago"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Chicago&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Claes Oldenburg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Child" id="Child"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Child&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 165. He sites "Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Oregon school case, 1925".--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The child is not the mere creature of the state.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;U.S. Supreme Court, 1925&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:I heard this quote from my friend, but I do not know the source of it.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A child is a lifetime of worry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A Russian friend. He says it's a Russian proverb. It's mentioned here: http://www.hotqa.com/parenting/1802-1-dmt123.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Small child, small problems. Big child, big problems.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Childhood" id="Childhood"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Childhood&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;F. Scott Fitzgerald&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Childless" id="Childless"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Childless&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 166. He sites Euripides: "Medea," 431 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The childless escape much misery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Euripides&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Children" id="Children"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Children&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Brendan Behan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jean de La Bruyère&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;W. C. Fields&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/87/64487.html, Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1891).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/children/ Robert Orben--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Orben&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/22055.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rita Rudner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Mark 10:14 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark 10:14&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 167. He sites Francis Bacon: "Essays, VII," 1597.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francis Bacon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 168. He sites George Herbert: "Outlandish Proverbs," 1640.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When children stand quiet they have done some ill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Herbert&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/20851.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George F. Will&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/399.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Byrne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, December 29, 2008, pg. 46.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Every generation faces a barbarian invasion in the form of its own children, who need to be civilized.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ascribed to Irving Kristol&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Christianity" id="Christianity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Christianity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2, Book 2, Chapter 9.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Blaise Pascal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="City" id="City"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;City&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Steve McQueen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Civilization" id="Civilization"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Civilization&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, July 18, 2005, pg. 56.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arnold Toynbee&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Volume 3, General Observations On The Fall Of The Roman Empire Of The West, (not part of any chapter), near footnote 11.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 16th edition, isbn 0-316-08277-5, pg. 656, quote 13.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Durant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Sited in Mark Steyn's editorial, "Our Reprimitivized Future," April 11, 2009. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWQwNTE2OWM2YjEwMWQzNTM4OTMzZGVhOWM0NDUxOGQ=&amp;amp;w=MA== Bartlett's Quotations, 16th edition, isbn 0-316-08277-5, pg. 656, quote 13.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Civilization is not an evolution of mankind but the imposition of human good on human evil. It is not a historical inevitability. It is a battle that has to be fought every day, because evil doesn't recede willingly before the wheels of progress.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Andrew McCarthy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Clarity" id="Clarity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Clarity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hugh Kingsmill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cleanliness" id="Cleanliness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cleanliness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Quentin Crisp&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2395.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Disraeli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Clothes" id="Clothes"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Clothes&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/253.html They cite Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, &amp;amp; wit (1835 - 1910)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="CommonSense" id="CommonSense"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Common Sense&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/common+sense/ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ralph Waldo Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Communism" id="Communism"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Communism&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Communist Manifesto&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Fran Lebowitz&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Clare Booth Luce&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, October 10, 2005, pg. 39.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I sometimes think that the entire [Communist movement] was just a front for the cement industry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Article: "Mysterious Khmer," by Mona Charen, February 19, 2009.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Losing you is not a loss, and keeping you is no specific gain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Khmer Rouge slogan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="CommunityOrganizer" id="CommunityOrganizer"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Community Organizer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, The Corner, October 14, 2008 http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTg3YzgyNDJjMDU3NDNlNjEzNzA2NDMzZmNhMzRmNjA=--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Competence" id="Competence"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Competence&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks [1956], pp. 120 - 121.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Complexity" id="Complexity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Complexity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. Possibly this trend results from a mistaken belief that using a somewhat mysterious device confers an aura of power on the user.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Niklaus Wirth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Compliment" id="Compliment"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Compliment&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/60/61960.html, speech, Sept. 23, 1907. "Fulton Day, Jamestown," published in Mark Twain's Speeches, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1923).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me -- I always feel that they have not said enough.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Composer" id="Composer"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Composer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ernest Newman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arthur Honegger&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Computer" id="Computer"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Computer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Pablo Picasso&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html (Quoted in Knuth, 1968, Vol. 2, also in Goldstine, 1972, p. 297.)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John von Neumann&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="ComputerProgramming" id="ComputerProgramming"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Computer Programming&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program. Author unidentified.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Practice of Programming, xii--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A good programmer can overcome a poor language or a clumsy operating system, but even a great programming environment will not rescue a bad programmer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Kernighan and Pike&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Practice of programming, Kernighan and Pike, somewhere around page 70.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The C programming language] is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Kernighan and Pike&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Sometimes a programmer confronted with a problem thinks, "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now he has two problems.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jamie Zawinski, paraphrased&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to to, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Donald Knuth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bill Gates&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Maurice Wilkes, who discovered debugging c. 1949&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The C programming language] makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bjarne Stroustrup&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html Also, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alanperlis177375.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alan Perlis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, "Oath of Fealty"--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Fred Brooks, Jr.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jon Ribbens&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Donald Knuth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Meyer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry Petroski&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0", Daniel J. Bernstein, CSAW'07, November 2, 2007, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To this very day, idiot software managers measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "lines of code produced," whereas the notion of "lines of code spent" is much more appropriate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dijkstra&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="ConMan" id="ConMan"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Con Man&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTQ5YTM3M2UzMjY3N2M3YWRiMDI0NzNmMTNhNjJlNTc= Editorial, "Obama, Con," National Review Online, October 25, 2008, Creators syndicate.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Confidence" id="Confidence"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Confidence&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, pg. 96--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Positive,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;adj&lt;/em&gt;. Mistaken at the top of one's voice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 10, Part 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Conformity" id="Conformity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Conformity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Since it is now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jean Cocteau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Congress" id="Congress"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Congress&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/56/61956.html, Following the Equator, ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," (1897).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/Congress/ Lichty and Wagner--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lichty and Wagner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Conquest" id="Conquest"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Conquest&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 25, Part 5 (near footnote 114).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 26, Part 3 (near footnote 77).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Resistance was fatal; flight was impracticable; and the patient submission of helpless innocence seldom found mercy from the Barbarian conqueror.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Conscience" id="Conscience"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Conscience&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Salvador De Madariaga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.izzy.com/~patri/quotes/sex_love.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/2/39102.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Bachelors have consciences. Married men have wives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/28985.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Punshon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Consensus" id="Consensus"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Consensus&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://nashvilletruth.blogspot.com/2005/06/consensus-is-absence-of-leadership.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Consensus is the absence of leadership.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/margaret_thatcher.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/margaret_thatcher.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Conservation" id="Conservation"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Conservation&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Julian Simon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Conservative" id="Conservative"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Conservative&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3217.html Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832 British politician (1804 - 1881)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Disraeli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Consistency" id="Consistency"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Consistency&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/24/64624.html, In Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991). "The Relation of Dress to Art," Pall Mall Gazette (London, Feb. 28, 1885).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/990.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bernard Berenson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26760.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ralph Waldo Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes "Lost Prophets: An Insider's History of the Modern Economists" (1994) by Alfred L. Malabre, p. 220--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Maynard Keynes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Controversy" id="Controversy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Controversy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32856.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Conversation" id="Conversation"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Conversation&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A gossip talks about others, a bore talks about himself -- and a brilliant conversationalist talks about you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/84/64484.html, Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No Importance, act 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/10/64610.html, The frog, in "The Remarkable Rocket," The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Courage" id="Courage"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Courage&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 68, Part 2, near footnote 31.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="CourageAndCowardice" id="CourageAndCowardice"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Courage And Cowardice&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/31/61931.html, Following the Equator, ch. 36, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," (1897). The epigram also appears as an entry, 1898, in Twain Notebook, ch. 31, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Julius Caesar (II, ii, 32-37)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cowards die many times before their deaths;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The valiant never taste of death but once.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eurpides&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Henry IV, Part I, Act 5, Scene 4.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The better part of valor is discretion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Elements of Style," Fourth Edition, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, ISBN 0-205-30902-X, pg. xviii.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[William Strunk Jr.] scorned the vague, the tame, the colorless, the irresolute. He felt it was worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;E. B. White&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Last Lion, Volume 1," by William Manchester, ISBN: 0316545031, pg. 228--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Devil's Dictionary, pg. 132--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Valor,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty, and the gambler's hope.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/courage/ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Joshua 1:9--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joshua 1:9&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/100/595.html, Algernon Charles Swinburne. (1837 - 1909), Bothwell. Act ii. Sc. 13.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There grows&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No herb of help to heal a coward heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Algernon Charles Swinburne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1985.html They cite Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, &amp;amp; wit (1835 - 1910)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Paradoxes of Christianity" essay in his Orthodoxy book (1908). http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1994/9407clas.asp--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Cicero, "Second Oration Against Marcus Antonius", Mark Anthony. Also called "The Second Philippic". http://www.4literature.net/Cicero/Second_Oration_Against_Marcus_Antonius/16.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I scorned the sword of Catiline, I will not quail before yours.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cicero&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Coward" id="Coward"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Coward&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.shakespeare-usa.com/Maior.htm Henry IV, Part I, Act 2, Scene 4--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I was a coward on instinct.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Creation" id="Creation"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Creation&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fifth Edition, isbn 0-19-860173-5, pg. 11. They cite, Alfonso 'the Wise' (1221 - 1284), King of Castile and Leon from 1252.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alfonso the Wise, on studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Creativity" id="Creativity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Creativity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29997.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="CrimeAndPunishment" id="CrimeAndPunishment"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Crime And Punishment&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites "The Library" in The American Mercury, Jan 1929, pg. 126.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites "The Library" in The American Mercury, November, 1930, pg. 382.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war. . . . The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. A Letter to Albert C. Ritchie, 5 October 1932. He sites The New Mencken Letters [1977], edited by Carl Bode, pg. 272.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 48, Part 4--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Critic" id="Critic"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Critic&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/20899.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Brendan Behan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/83/64283.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Criticism" id="Criticism"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Criticism&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ralph Waldo Emerson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/criticism/ Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Elbert Hubbard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 6, Part 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference of age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2333.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plutarch&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cruelty" id="Cruelty"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cruelty&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All cruelty springs from weakness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Seneca&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Curiosity" id="Curiosity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Curiosity&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Curiosity is a lust of the mind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Hobbes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Java Programming Language, Fourth Edition," by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes. isbn 0-321-34980-6, pg. 760--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dorothy Parker&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.infinitecat.com/infinite/cat-html/1-100/6.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arnold Edinborough&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Curse" id="Curse"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Curse&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;May you live in interesting times.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified, often described as a Chinese curse&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Custom" id="Custom"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Custom&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Custom does often reason overrule&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And only serves for reason to the fool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, December 18, 2006, pg. 12.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You say that it is your [Hindu] custom to burn widows. Very well. We [British] also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Sir Charles Napier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Cynicism" id="Cynicism"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cynicism&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cynicism -- the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Russell Lynes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/97/64397.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cynic -- a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, pg. 21--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cynic,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Dancing" id="Dancing"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Dancing&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/72/22072.html They cite Henry Fielding (1707-1754), British novelist, dramatist. Sir Positive Trap, in Love in Several Masques, act 3, sc. 7.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry Fielding&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/65/28165.html They cite John, Sir Herschel (1792-1871), British scientist. Quoted in Ronald Pearsall, Victorian Popular Music, p. 199 (1973).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Music and dancing (the more's the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Herschel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/30/12130.html They cite Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter Oct. 9, 1746. The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol. 1, no. 113, first published (1774), ed. Charles Strachey (1901).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/25/63425.html They cite: Frank W. Wead (1895?-1947), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Lt. Rusty Ryan (John Wayne), They Were Expendable, reply to nurse Lt. Sandy Davis (Donna Reed), who invites him to a dance (1945).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frank W. Wead&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/50/6750.html They cite: José Bergamín (1895 - 1983), Spanish writer. El cohete y la estrella (The Rocket and the Star), p. 55, Madrid, Biblioteca de Indice (1923).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;José Bergamín&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/19/12919.html They cite: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet, critic. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 14, ed. Kathleen Coburn (1990). Table Talk, "1 Jan. 1832," Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Taylor Coleridge&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/20/61720.html They cite: Lamar Trotti (1898-1952), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Mary Todd (Marjorie Weaver), Young Mr. Lincoln, commenting on Lincoln's (Henry Fonda) awkwardness on the dance floor (1939).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Mr. Lincoln at least you're a man of honor. You said you wanted to dance with me in the worst way, and I must say that you've kept your word. That's the worst way I've ever seen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lamar Trotti and John Ford&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="DarkAges" id="DarkAges"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Dark Ages&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 38, Part 5, near footnote 161.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Day" id="Day"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Day&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24348.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! (&lt;em&gt;Carpe diem, quàm minimùm credula postero.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Horace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="DeadpanHumor" id="DeadpanHumor"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Deadpan Humor&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Ginsberg's Theorem:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can't win.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can't break even.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You can't even quit the game.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs then you lean too far and you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/quotes/stephen_wright.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I filled out an application that said, "In Case Of Emergency Notify". I wrote "Doctor" . . . What's my mother going to do?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Simpsons episode 7F13, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment". 2nd Season DVD 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Reverend Lovejoy: Oh, come on, Lisa, now you're here for a reason. Is your father stealing bread?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lisa: Maybe. I don't watch him every minute.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Boy, life takes a long time to live.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29723.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dave Barry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The other day I . . . uh, no, that wasn't me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When I woke up this morning, my girlfriend asked if I had slept well. I said, "No, I made a few mistakes."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3729.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You can't have everything. Where would you put it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you don't go to people's funerals, they won't come to yours.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is illegal to make liquor privately or water publicly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lord Birkett&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Good night to spend with family, but avoid arguments with your mate's new lover.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Modern Humorous Quotations, pg. 155. Also, http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/22670.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married, and I didn't want him to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rita Rudner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Modern Humorous Quotations, pg. 185.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous -- everyone hasn't met me yet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rodney Dangerfield&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Modern Humorous Quotations, pg. 204.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joseph Heller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Lowery's Law: If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Chaos, panic, and disorder. My work here is done.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Simpsons, "Saturdays of Thunder", episode 8F07 http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F07.html This link doesn't actually contain the quote. However, I saw a newsgroup posting with this quote. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=64755%40apple.Apple.COM&amp;amp;oe=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;output=gplain Also, I was able to verify the quote from the episode.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Homer: You know, Marge, that Bart is a little miracle -- his winning smile, his button nose, his fat little stomach, his face alight with wholesome mischief. He reminds me of me before the weight of the world crushed my spirit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fifth Edition, isbn 0-19-860173-5, pg. 12. They cite Woody Allen (1935 - ), Annie Hall (1977 film, with Marshall Brickman).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/48.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/posters/370b/ Cluelessness: There Are No Stupid Questions, But There Are A Lot Of Inquisitive Idiots.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27638.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Doug Larson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/34013.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rodney Dangerfield&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F20.html The Simpsons, "Marge in Chains", episode 9F20--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Homer: Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex. It's also the food preparation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F06 The Simpsons, "Realty Bites", episode 5F06--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Homer: Trying is the first step toward failure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F21.html The Simpsons, "Homerpalooza", episode 3F21.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Grandpa: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1340.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rita Rudner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1222.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rita Rudner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/631.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Safire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37615.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Carlin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/25720.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stephen Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29637.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles M. Schulz&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/steven_wright.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Steven Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Happiest Baby on the Block," by Harvey Karp, M.D., paperback, 2002, ISBN 0-553-38146-6, pg. 54--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;After handing him a report card filled with F's, the boy asked his father, "Do you think the problem is my heredity or my upbringing?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27477.html [cf. Henry David Thoreau]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James Thurber&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Email signature--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Terry Pratchett&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/345.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Goldwyn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26732.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Fran Lebowitz&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Reader's Digest, September 2007, pg. 112.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When I was a little kid, we had a quicksand box. I was an only child . . . eventually.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Steven Wright&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/94.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/40153.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mike Myers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://quotationspage.com/quote/38584.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Garrison Keillor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Stick to Drawing Comics Monkey Brain," Scott Adams, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59184-185-2, pg. 348.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I ask for so little. And boy do I get it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dilbert (Scott Adams)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/340.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ronnie Shakes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Simpsons, Crook and Ladder (2007). Season 18, episode 19. http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003031/quotes--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Marge: Growing up means giving up everything that makes you happy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Death" id="Death"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Death&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain, cable from Europe to the Associated Press&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He was dying all his life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hector Berlioz (of Chopin)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas, Lord Horder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming and terrified like his passengers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;1 Corinthians 15:55&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joseph Stalin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Birth, copulation, and death.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;T. S. Eliot&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:From "One Man's San Francisco," pg. 13--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nearby, a younger man was nursing a martini and a cigarette, slowly dying by his own hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Herb Caen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lucretius&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Baron de Montesquieu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Susan Ertz&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;W. Somerset Maughm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Graffito&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Johnny Carson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations, Compiled by Fred Metcalf (isbn 0-14-007568-2), pg. 70.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/147.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Tom Stoppard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain, of a deceased politician&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Last Lion, Volume 1," by William Manchester, ISBN: 0316545031, pg. 731--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill, during the partition of Ireland&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 46. He sites Seneca: Troades, c. 60--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;After death there is nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Seneca&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 105. He sites Marcus Manilius: Astronomica, IV, c. 40 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We begin to die at birth; the end flows from the beginning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Marcus Manilius&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fifth Edition, isbn 0-19-860173-5, pg. 8. They cite, Agnolo di Tura b. c. 1300, Sienese chronicler.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No one wept for the dead, because everyone expected death itself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Agnolo di Tura&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fifth Edition, isbn 0-19-860173-5, pg. 9. They cite, Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Anna Akhmatova&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program == Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/death/ Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Epicurus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/100/595.html, Algernon Charles Swinburne. (1837 - 1909), The Garden of Proserpine.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;From too much love of living,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From hope and fear set free,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We thank with brief thanksgiving&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever gods may be&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That no man lives forever,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That dead men rise up never;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That even the weariest river&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Winds somewhere safe to sea.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Algernon Charles Swinburne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ecclesiastes 3:20 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All come from dust, and to dust all return.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ecclesiastes 3:20&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ecclesiastes 4:2 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;And I declared that the dead,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who had already died,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;are happier than the living,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who are still alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ecclesiastes 4:2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ecclesiastes 5:15 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Naked a man comes from his mother's womb,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and as he comes, so he departs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ecclesiastes 5:15&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The King is dead! Long live the King!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Mencken: A Life," by Fred Hobson, isbn 0-8018-5238-2, pg. 440.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Sara and I] have parted forever, though my ashes will soon be mingling with hers. I'll have her in mind until thought and memory adjourn, but that is all . . . We were happy together, but all beautiful things must end.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, December 31, 2005, pg. 17.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Santayana&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37239.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Brendan Behan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Genesis 3:19 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;. . . for dust you are and to dust you will return.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Genesis 3:19&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1072.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dave Barry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 25, Part 6 (near footnote 133).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He was released from the miseries of life . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1071.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Isaac Asimov&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29102.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Death is not the worst than can happen to men.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plato&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Plutarch's Lives, Volume II, Translated from the Greek, with notes and a life of Plutarch by Aubrey Stewart, M.A., 1899, Chapter: "Life of Pyrrhus", section VIII.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Pyrrhus] grieved greatly over the death of Aeropus; not so much because he was dead, for that, he said, was the common lot of mankind, but because he himself had delayed repaying him a kindness until it was too late. Debts of money, he said, can be paid to the heirs of a creditor, but men of honour are grieved at not being able to return a kindness during the lifetime of their benefactor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Plutarch&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 30, Part 5 (near footnote 117).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[They] were leveled in the grave . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 31, Part 6 (near footnote 157).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] groans of the dying excited only the envy of their surviving friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mariana de Rebus Hispanicis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:2 Timothy 4:6 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;St. Paul, 2 Timothy 4:6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3122.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Leonardo da Vinci&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2471.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertolt Brecht&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/40098.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Randy K. Milholland&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 56, Part 4, near footnote 96.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/nothing-his-life-became-him-like-leaving Macbeth Act 1, Scene 4, lines 9, 10--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nothing in his life&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Became him like the leaving it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Decisiveness" id="Decisiveness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Decisiveness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/38177.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Make a decision, even if it's wrong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jarvis Klem&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Deliberation" id="Deliberation"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Deliberation&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, pg. 23--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deliberation,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Democracy" id="Democracy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Democracy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed and are right.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Reinhold Niebuhr&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, if he be a tyrant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benito Mussolini&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Democracy is . . . a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Bernard Shaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/55/64655.html, first published in The Fortnightly Review (Feb. 1891). The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895). (Extended quote?)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The American scene: a reader, 1965. http://books.google.com/books?id=WKVBAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;q=democracy+%22good+and+hard%22+inauthor:Mencken&amp;amp;dq=democracy+%22good+and+hard%22+inauthor:Mencken&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;as_brr=0&amp;amp;ei=mw5tSMyALYeusgOG3KyqBg&amp;amp;pgis=1 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 2, Part 1.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.lpboulder.com/quotes/ John Adams (1814)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Adams&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 44, Part 7, near footnote 201.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/35961.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/919.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;E. B. White&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27580.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Democrat" id="Democrat"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Democrat&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I belong to no organized party -- I am a Democrat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Rogers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Democratic Party is like a mule -- without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Emory Speer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Republicans raise dahlias, Dalmatians, and eyebrows. Democrats raise Airedales, kids, and taxes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Stanton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Republicans sleep in twin beds -- some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Stanton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Depth" id="Depth"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Depth&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Henry VI, Part II, Act 3, Scene 1--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Despair" id="Despair"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Despair&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ecclesiastes 1:14&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Job 2:9 (NIV). His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Job's] wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Job 2:9&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://quotationspage.com/quote/2476.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edmund Burke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Desperation" id="Desperation"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Desperation&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 506, quote 11. They cite Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1, Economy.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry David Thoreau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27477.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James Thurber&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Despot" id="Despot"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Despot&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 67, Part 1, near footnote 11.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Despotism" id="Despotism"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Despotism&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/30/64630.html, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," Fortnightly Review (London, Feb. 1891, repr. 1895).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 17, Part 4 (near footnote 176).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Destiny" id="Destiny"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Destiny&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2264.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Jennings Bryan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Destruction" id="Destruction"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Destruction&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.uselessknowledge.com/quote.shtml--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Detail" id="Detail"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Detail&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://scicomp.ucsd.edu/~mholst/personal/thoreau.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry David Thoreau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Dictator" id="Dictator"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Dictator&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Dictators ride to and for on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Difference" id="Difference"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Difference&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 60, Part 1, near footnote 11.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Difficulty" id="Difficulty"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Difficulty&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Getting Things Done," by David Allen, ISBN 0-14-200028-0, pg. 61--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Rogers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Diplomat" id="Diplomat"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Diplomat&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Camillo Di Cavour&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Direction" id="Direction"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Direction&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Honest Tea (TM)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Chinese Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Disagreement" id="Disagreement"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Disagreement&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23638.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Discipline" id="Discipline"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Discipline&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Proverbs 13:24 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He who spares the rod hates his son,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Proverbs 13:24&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Hebrews 12:6 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] LORD disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hebrews 12:6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Disease" id="Disease"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Disease&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/87/31387.html, Samuel Johnson (1709.1784), British author, lexicographer. Rambler, no. 48 (London, Sept. 1, 1750).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Divorce" id="Divorce"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Divorce&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Zsa Zsa Gabor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Peggy Joyce&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arthur 'Bugs' Baer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I heard from my cat's lawyer today. My cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Johnny Carson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henny Youngman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;She cried -- and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Tommy Manville&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Johnny Carson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Kenneth Galbraith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You don't know a woman till you've met her in court.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Norman Mailer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:H. L. Mencken, Chrestomathy pg. 620, also http://www.bartleby.com/66/52/39252.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alimony,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23516.html Rita Rudner. I think this was from the famous Rodney Dangerfield special that featured several up-and-coming stars.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whenever I date a guy, I think, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rita Rudner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 44, Part 4, near footnote 124.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 44, Part 4, near footnote 125.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 44, Part 4, near footnote 125.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Doctor" id="Doctor"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Doctor&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Herb Shriner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Doubt" id="Doubt"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Doubt&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/28981.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Sir Francis Bacon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Dream" id="Dream"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Dream&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Max Beerbohm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (isbn 0-590-35342-X), J. K. Rowling, pg. 214--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;J. K. Rowling&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="DrinkingAndDrugs" id="DrinkingAndDrugs"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Drinking And Drugs&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Old saying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dean Martin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Sean O'Faolain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The whole world is about three drinks behind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Humphrey Bogart&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I will walk carefully.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Russian Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Uppers are no longer stylish, Methedrine is almost as rare as pure acid or DMT. "Consciousness Expansion" went out with LBJ and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dr. Hunter S. Thompson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;W. C. Fields&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/a-better-sort-of-insult/ William Manchester has a slightly different version ("The Last Lion, Volume 1," by William Manchester, ISBN: 0316545031, pg. 810): "Mr. Churchill, you are drunk." "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober tomorrow."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"Mr. Churchill, you are drunk."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Madame, you are ugly."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mr. Churchill, you are extremely drunk!"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And you, Madame, are extremely ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;One reason I don't drink is that I want to known when I'm having a good time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Nancy Astor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Burns&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I always keep a stimulant handy in case I see a snake -- which I also keep handy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;W. C. Fields&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;W. C. Fields&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Levant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I drink to forget I drink.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joe E. Lewis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;One more drink and I'll be under the host.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dorothy Parker&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33234.html They cite P. J. O'Rourke US humorist &amp;amp; political commentator (1947 -).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lily Tomlin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robin Williams&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hunter S. Thompson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Modern Humorous Quotations, pg. 203.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;W. C. Fields&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks [1956], pg. 247.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Not all men who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we aren't poets.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 311. He sites Amphis: Fragment, c. 330 B.C.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Drink and be merry, for our time on earth is short, and death lasts forever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Amphis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/drinking/ Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Fuller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/drinking/ Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ernest Hemingway&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/Drinking/ Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Levant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/frasm/bio.htm "Rene MacColl of the Daily Express wrote : 'Too young to die, but too drunk to live'."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Brendan Behan was] too young to die, but too drunk to live.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rene MacColl&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29801.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I only take a drink on two occasions -- when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Brendan Behan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Simpsons, "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment", 4F15 http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F15 http://www.snpp.com/other/papers/bm.paper.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To alcohol! The cause of -- and solution to -- all of life's problems.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Cicero, "Second Oration Against Marcus Antonius", Mark Anthony. Also called "The Second Philippic". http://www.4literature.net/Cicero/Second_Oration_Against_Marcus_Antonius/11.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[One] must not demand prudence from a man who is never sober.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cicero&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Duel" id="Duel"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Duel&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/338.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Duty" id="Duty"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Duty&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/60/12360.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Duties are not performed for duties' sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2164.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Dying" id="Dying"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Dying&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Browne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/39266.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mind fogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/99/64299.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde, Last words as he lay dying in a drab Paris hotel room&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Ear" id="Ear"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ear&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1191.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Georg Christoph Lichtenberg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Earnestness" id="Earnestness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Earnestness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Economics" id="Economics"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Economics&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," by Adam Smith, Book 4, Chapter 2.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Adam Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No nation was ever ruined by trade.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," by Adam Smith, book I, chapter II.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Adam Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There's no such thing as a free lunch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Milton Friedman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes "A Tract on Monetary Reform" (1923) Ch. 3--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Maynard Keynes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:From pg. 180, Libertarianism: A Primer, David Boaz, who sites "Protection or Free Trade", by Henry George.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry George&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ludwig von Mises&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell061306.asp Thomas Sowell, June 13, 2006, "Random Thoughts"--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, July 17, 2006, pg. 30--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Gilder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 44, Part 5, near footnote 137.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Cato Institute 2007 Annual Report--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government union-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Milton Friedman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1//AIH19th/Sumner.Forgotten.html Address by William Graham Sumner. "An expanded version of two of the essays of which he was especially proud, this address was given before audiences in Brooklyn and New Haven on January 30 and February 8 or 9, 1883, and were reprinted in Forgotten Man, ed. Albert Galloway Keller, pp. 465-495."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Graham Sumner&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Economist" id="Economist"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Economist&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:George F. Will, 16 June 2002 Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54510-2002Jun14.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An economist is someone who sees something working in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Education" id="Education"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Education&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Chinese Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fifth Edition, isbn 0-19-860173-5, pg. 6. They cite George Ade (1866 - 1944), 'The Steel Box' in Chicago Record 16 March 1898.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Ade&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Butler Yeats&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Clark Kerr&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Noel Coward&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Michel de Montaigne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dwight D. Eisenhower&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A little learning is a dangerous thing;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexander Pope&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Arthur Ward&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Bernard Shaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/47/64347.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:From Thomas Sowell's quotes. He sites: Eric Hoffer, "First Things, Last Things," p. 49.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Modern Humorous Quotations, pg. 258.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Max Beerbohm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Collected by John Webb. He sites "The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche", pg. 217.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;. . . school teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's Mencken Quotations. He Sites, "The Library" in the American Mercury, Apr 1924, p. 504.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites "What Is Going On in the World", The American Mercury, Feb 1933, pg. 131.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken, on pedagogues&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Carl Gustav Jung&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 16th edition, isbn 0-316-08277-5, pg. 5, quote 11. They cite Amenemope, c. Eleventh century, B.C., "The Instruction of Amenemope," chapter 1.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Give your ears, hear the sayings,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give your heart to understand them;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It profits to put them in your heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Amenemope&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 4, Part 1.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24368.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is better to learn late than never.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Publilius Syrus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23615.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2512.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cicero&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:I think this is a good source for this quotation: http://books.google.com/books?id=o5ELAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA16&amp;amp;dq=%22It+is+not+sufficiently+considered+that+men+more+frequently+require+to+be+reminded+than+informed%22+inauthor:Samuel+inauthor:Johnson&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;as_brr=0&amp;amp;ei=PhRpSPGEAYfMtAPVz6ieDg "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius," Published 1846 A. V. Blake, pg. 16. This section is titled, "The Rambler". The full quote reads, "What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught; and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[It] is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 66, Part 4, near footnote 115.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 66, Part 4, near footnote 118.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/34570.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, May 4, 2009, pg. 47.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Louis L'Amour&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Egotist" id="Egotist"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Egotist&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An egotist is a man who thinks that if he hadn't been born, people would have wondered why.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dan Post&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Egotist,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Election" id="Election"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Election&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/38774.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Franklin P. Adams&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Emacs" id="Emacs"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Emacs&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://dbforums.com/archive/126/2001/07/4/75197 Original quote: Emacs is a nice OS, but a weird editor.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Emacs is a nice [operating system], but a weird editor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;M. J. Blom&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Empire" id="Empire"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Empire&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 49, Part 6, near footnote 141.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[An] extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in action and rich in resources; a swift and easy communication with the extreme parts; fortifications to check the first effort of rebellion; a regular administration to protect and punish; and a well-disciplined army to inspire fear, without provoking discontent and despair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="End" id="End"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;End&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/91/12391.html Also, http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24921.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, August 18, 2008, pg. 60.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All lovely things will have an ending,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All lovely things will fade and die,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All youth, that's now so bravely spending,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will beg a penny by and by.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Conrad Aiken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Enemy" id="Enemy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Enemy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/54/64454.html, Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 1 (1891).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Sa'di&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The enemy of my enemy is my friend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arabic proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He makes no friend who never made a foe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alfred, Lord Tennyson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Heinrich Heine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/283.html (15 Dec 2005)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jones&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Volume 3, General Observations On The Fall Of The Roman Empire Of The West, (not part of any chapter), near footnote 6.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Volume 3, General Observations On The Fall Of The Roman Empire Of The West, (not part of any chapter), near footnote 6.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Yet this apparent security should not tempt us to forget, that new enemies, and unknown dangers, may possibly arise from some obscure people, scarcely visible in the map of the world. The Arabs or Saracens, who spread their conquests from India to Spain, had languished in poverty and contempt, till [Muhammad] breathed into those savage bodies the soul of enthusiasm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Engineer" id="Engineer"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Engineer&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="England" id="England"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;England&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;W. Somerset Maugham&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Last Lion, Volume 1," by William Manchester, ISBN: 0316545031, pg. 518--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If I should die, think only this of me:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That there's some corner of a foreign field&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is forever England.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Rupert Brooke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Industrialization came to England but has since left.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="English" id="English"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;English&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Hazlitt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James Agee&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Bernard Shaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;"Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas (circa 1920)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend ten shillings on a hotel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Truman Capote&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The English find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Pamela Frankau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Environment" id="Environment"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Environment&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;People are easily anesthetized by overstatement, and there is a danger that the environmental movement will fall flat on its face when it is most needed, simply because it has pitched its tale too strongly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Maddox&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A pleasant natural environment is a good -- a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 58, Part 2, near footnote 38.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The land] was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Envy" id="Envy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Envy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/57/61957.html, Following the Equator, ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," (1897).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Job 5:2--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Job 5:2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 52, Part 4, near footnote 81.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[They] saw, they envied . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24358.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The covetous man is ever in want.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Horace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Epitaph" id="Epitaph"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Epitaph&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.tonyevans.org/speakout/booklets/tale.htm http://seniors-site.com/funstuff/epitaphs.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Pause, stranger, when you pass me by.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you are now, so once was I.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I am now, so you will be.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So prepare for death and follow me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Equality" id="Equality"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Equality&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 44, Part 2, near footnote 29.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Romans had aspired to be equal; they were leveled by the equality of servitude . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Error" id="Error"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Error&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth -- that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III", by Edward Gibbon, edited by David Womersly, ISBN 0-140-43395-3. Published in Penguin Classics 1995. Pg. 1093, Gibbon's Marginalia.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Where error is irretrievable, repentance is useless.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Europe" id="Europe"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Europe&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Volume 3, General Observations On The Fall Of The Roman Empire Of The West, (not part of any chapter), near footnote 9.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, March 23, 2009, pg. 24. They site Charles Murray in "In Our Hands."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles Murray&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, March 23, 2009, pg. 24.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Example" id="Example"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Example&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, May 4, 2009, pg. 36.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Example] is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edmund Burke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Experience" id="Experience"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Experience&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Vernon Law&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/21/64321.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Face" id="Face"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Face&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/57/64557.html, Quoted in H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde, ch. 9 (1976).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fact" id="Fact"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fact&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:George F. Will, "Condescensional Wisdom", Washington Post, May 4, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050302198.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Patrick Moynihan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Failure" id="Failure"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Failure&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In your code, never check for an error condition you don't know how to handle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Show me a thoroughly satisfied man -- and I will show you a failure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Alva Edison&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please everybody.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Herbert Bayard Swope&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frank Lloyd Wright (attributed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Last Lion, Volume 1," by William Manchester, ISBN: 0316545031, pg. 745--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[After an appendectomy and a devastating electoral loss, Churchill found himself] without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:H. L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, pp 201 - 210 (from John Webb's collection).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Experience,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. A series of failures. Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again next time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/7992.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31029.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Minna Thomas Antrim&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGFlMzQ2NDA2MWFmOTMwMjAxYzZhOWI4ZGU5NTAzNzU=&amp;amp;w=MA== "Inaugural Disaster," by Mark Steyn, January 19, 2009. National Review Online.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Faith" id="Faith"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Faith&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi?ref=hoferi--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Those of little faith are of little hatred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Faithfulness" id="Faithfulness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Faithfulness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.izzy.com/~patri/quotes/sex_love.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"Do you cheat on your wife?" asked the psychiatrist.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Who else?" answered the patient.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.izzy.com/~patri/quotes/sex_love.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"Before we get married," said the young woman to her fiance, "I want to confess some affairs that I've had in the past."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"But you told me all about those a few weeks ago," her young man replied.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, darling," she explained, "but that was a few weeks ago."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fallacy" id="Fallacy"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fallacy&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/G._K._Chesterton/ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33142.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fame" id="Fame"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fame&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Now when I bore people at a party, they think it's their fault.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry Kissinger, on fame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Andy Warhol&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, July 17, 2006, pg. 47. Alston B. Ramsay is the author if this book review, but the phrase sounds like a saying rather than an original phrase by him. If it is original with him, I will gladly change the attribution.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Fame may last a minute, but infamy lasts a lifetime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Famine" id="Famine"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Famine&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fanatic" id="Fanatic"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fanatic&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/86/12386.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 37, Part 2, near footnote 58.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fanaticism" id="Fanaticism"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fanaticism&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Lincoln Rockwell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 22, Part 1 (near footnote 12).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 6, near footnote 135.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Fanaticism] obliterates the feelings of humanity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fashion" id="Fashion"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fashion&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry David Thoreau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jean Cocteau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;And by my grave you'd pray to have me back&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I could see how well you look in black.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Marco Carson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Father" id="Father"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Father&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Universal Anthology == A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes", edited by Richard Garnett, pg. 122, published 1899. Original is: "Being asked why he did not become a father, he [Thales] answered that it was because he was fond of children."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When asked why he did not become a father, Thales answered, "Because I am fond of children."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Diogenes Laertius&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.izzy.com/~patri/quotes/sex_love.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Maraget Turnbull&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fault" id="Fault"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fault&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/28771.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francois De La Rochefoucauld&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2554.html Matthew Prior English diplomat &amp;amp; poet (1664 - 1721)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Matthew Prior&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26195.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francois De La Rochefoucauld&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Favor" id="Favor"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Favor&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/69/39269.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never let your inferiors do you a favor. It will be extremely costly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fear" id="Fear"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fear&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I will show you fear in a handful of dust.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;T. S. Eliot&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Cicero, "Second Oration Against Marcus Antonius", Mark Anthony. Also called "The Second Philippic". http://www.4literature.net/Cicero/Second_Oration_Against_Marcus_Antonius/12.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[It] was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cicero&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 59, Part 1, near footnote 15.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1918.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bertrand Russell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://quotationspage.com/quote/26912.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edmund Burke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fence" id="Fence"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fence&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/G._K._Chesterton/ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32943.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fighting" id="Fighting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fighting&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arthur Miller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/59/12359.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Finality" id="Finality"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Finality&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles Dickens&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Flattery" id="Flattery"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Flattery&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;'Tis an old maxim in the schools,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That flattery's the food of fools --&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet now and then your men of wit&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will condescend to take a bit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jonathan Swift&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 25, footnote 1.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 41, Part 2, near footnote 31.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Flattery] adheres to power, and envy to superior merit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Folly" id="Folly"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Folly&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when had the opportunity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Helen Rowland&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Food" id="Food"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Food&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;. . . nobody really likes capers no matter what you do with them. Some people &lt;em&gt;pretend&lt;/em&gt; to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it, tastes even better with capers not in it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Nora Ephorn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; am an epicure; &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are a gourmand; &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; has both feet in the trough.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Competition, New Statesman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The best number for a dinner party is two -- myself and a damn good head waiter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Nubar Gulbenkian&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer -- admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Katherine Cebrian&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fool" id="Fool"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fool&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/33/61933.html, Following the Equator, ch. 28, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," (1897).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Abraham Lincoln&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Who loves not wine, women, and song&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remains a fool his whole life long.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexander Pope&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Linux fortune program.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Herbert Spencer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Proverbs 10:14 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Wise men store up knowledge,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Proverbs 10:14&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Proverbs 18:6 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A fool's lips bring him strife,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and his mouth invites a beating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Proverbs 18:6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 278, quote 24. They cite Molière, Les Femmes Savantes, IV, iii--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Molière&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Forecaster" id="Forecaster"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Forecaster&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edgarrfie130301.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edgar R. Fiedler&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Forgiveness" id="Forgiveness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Forgiveness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37584.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Aesop&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Fortune" id="Fortune"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Fortune&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Latin Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cicero&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 38, Part 1, near footnote 6.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="FreeSpeech" id="FreeSpeech"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Free Speech&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, "The Week", 23 October 2000--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dr. Kathleen Dixon, Director of Women's Studies at Bowling Green State University&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites The Diary of H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 357.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Freedom" id="Freedom"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Freedom&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lord Boyd-Orr&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:This appears to be a paraphrase of a section (pp 47-48) of Edith Hamilton's 1964 book, "The Echo of Greece" (ISBN: 0393002314).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edith Hamilton, paraphrased&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Hermann Hesse&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A nation may lose its liberties in a day, and not miss them for a century.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Baron de Montesquieu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:H. L. Mencken's "A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8)", pg.482--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Pitt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Malcolm X&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by [the United States] in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles Dickens&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexis de Tocqueville&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Bernard Shaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Notes on Democracy, Part III, pg. 148--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites "Editorial" in The American Mercury, Jul 1927, pg. 288.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), edited by H. L. Mencken [1989], pg. 37. He sites Frank Hague: Speech before the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 12, 1938--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frank Hague&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"You Don't Say" by Fred Gielow (isbn 0-9603938-2-X) pg. 236--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/53/61953.html, Following the Equator, ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," (1897).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/ http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30011.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27115.html (15 Dec 2005).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Louis Stevenson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1247.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 31, Part 6 (near footnote 175).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 38, Part 4, near footnote 120.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, November 6, 2006, pg. 49. They cite General John Stark, 1809, to his Revolutionary War comrades 32 years after the battle of Bennington--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;General John Stark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.lpboulder.com/quotes/ Jacob Hornberger (1995)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jacob Hornberger&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Reason Magazine, May 2007, pg. 27.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If [the fact that people make poor decisions] is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jacob Sullum&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Reason Magazine, May 2007, pg. 30.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Stuart Mill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"Stick to Drawing Comics Monkey Brain," Scott Adams, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59184-185-2, pg. 349.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The thing to remember about freedom is that it's not given, it's taken.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Scott Adams&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/35950.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/100/298.5.html Attribution: First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1801.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, June 2, 2008, pg. 60.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am not a warrior, but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar van den Boogaard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will060108.php3 George Will, June 1, 2008.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Freedom is the silence of the law.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George F. Will&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton," Published by Ignatius Press, 1986, ISBN 0898702445, 9780898702446, pg. 274.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="French" id="French"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;French&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Old saying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The French drink to get loosened up for an event, to celebrate an event, and even to recover from an event.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Geneviève Guérin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Friendship" id="Friendship"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Friendship&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Of my friends I am the only one I have left.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Terence&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mignon McLaughlin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Bulwer-Lytton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Logan Pearsall Smith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Chinese Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Elbert Hubbard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics, and his epistemology.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lord Samuel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Gore Vidal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Last Lion, Volume 1," by William Manchester, ISBN: 0316545031, pg. 382--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;George Bernard Shaw: Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend -- if you have one.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Winston Churchill: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second -- if there is one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Frugality" id="Frugality"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Frugality&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2255.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Horace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Future" id="Future"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Future&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Proverbs 27:1 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do not boast about tomorrow,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for you do not know what a day may bring forth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Proverbs 27:1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, August 24, 2009, pg. 52.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] future belongs to those who show up for it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Steyn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gallo-Grecians" id="Gallo-Grecians"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gallo-Grecians&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 36, Part 4, footnote 103.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The emperor was probably born in the province of Galatia, whose inhabitants, the Gallo-Grecians, were supposed to unite the vices of a savage and a corrupted people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gambling" id="Gambling"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gambling&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gauls" id="Gauls"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gauls&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 38, Part 1, near footnote 4.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Genius" id="Genius"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Genius&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert S. Lynd&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James Russell Lowell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Levant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. C. Lichtenberg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/0/64300.html, Remark at the New York Customs, Jan. 3, 1882, though there is no contemporary evidence for it.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have nothing to declare except my genius.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde, Remark at the New York Customs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Edison&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/11/61911.html, Autobiography, ch. 27, ed. Charles Neider (1959).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, August 28, 2006, pg. 40.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Walter Bagehot&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 42, Part 1, near footnote 1.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation, as by the height to which they ascend above the level of their age and country; and the same stature, which in a people of giants would pass unnoticed, must appear conspicuous in a race of pygmies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="German" id="German"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;German&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/73/61973.html, Hank Morgan, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. 22 (1889).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Germans" id="Germans"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Germans&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 38, Part 1, near footnote 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] ferocious Germans, who have so often attempted, and who will always desire, to exchange the solitude of their woods and morasses for the wealth and fertility of Gaul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Girth" id="Girth"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Girth&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I had no intention of giving her my vital statistics. "Let me put it this way," I said. "According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Erma Bombeck&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Glory" id="Glory"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Glory&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Napoleon Bonaparte&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29372.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Pliny The Elder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Goal" id="Goal"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Goal&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31755.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arnold Toynbee&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="GodAndReligion" id="GodAndReligion"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;God And Religion&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The quote comes from http://www.uselessknowledge.com. The note in the author section comes from pg. 85 of William Manchester's "Disturber of the Peace" (isbn 0-87023-544-3)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;During the past ten years I have stolen 75 Bibles, perhaps the national record.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken, who regularly sent Bibles to his friends in Baltimore elegantly inscribed, "With the regards of the author"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Matthew 10:16&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Martin Luther&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The worst that you can say about Him (God) is that basically He's an underachiever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/32/39132.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Creator -- A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Pablo Picasso&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Pray as though everything depended on the Lord and then go out and work as if it all depended on you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Martin Luther&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Simpsons episode 8F22: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F22.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Bart: How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teacher: I'm sorry, that would be playing God.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bart: God, shmod, I want my monkey-man!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bernie S. Siegel, MD&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Wherever God erects a house of prayer,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Devil always builds a chapel there,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And 'twill be found upon examination,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The latter has the largest congregation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Daniel Defoe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;God will forgive me, it is his business.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Heinrich Heine, last words&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/100/298.11.html Attribution: Notes on Virginia. Query xviii. Manners.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas R. Ybarra&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Friedrich Nietzshe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When a pious visitor inquired sweetly, "Henry, have you made your peace with God?" [Thoreau] replied, "We have never quarreled."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Brooks Atkinson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Jeremiah 17:5 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cursed is the one who trusts in man,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who depends on flesh for his strength&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and whose heart turns away from the LORD.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jeremiah 17:5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Galileo Galilei&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Paul Tillich&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There can be no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Niccolò Machiavelli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Stuart Mill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The saints are the sinners who keep on going.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Louis Stevenson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/82/39282.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Archbishop,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The god I believe in isn't short of cash.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bono&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:H. L. Mencken, Chrestomathy pg. 624, also http://www.bartleby.com/66/60/39260.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Puritanism,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, pg. 16--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christian,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, pg. 104--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Repentance,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Living Philosophies [1931, ed. by Will Durant], pp 192 - 193.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind -- that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:George F. Will, column 30 December 2001--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Santayana&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/78/39278.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/97/61897.html, repr. in What Is Man?, Ed. Paul Baender (1973). "As Concerns Interpreting the Deity," (1905).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2, Book 2, Chapter 12.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Religious insanity is very common in the United States.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Alexis de Tocqueville&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/100/731.24.html They cite Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne. (1533.1592), "Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:2 Samuel 22:2--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;2 Samuel 22:2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Nehemiah 9:17--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Nehemiah 9:17&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Job 1:21 (NIV) NB: In the NIV text, all upper case LORD indicates the use of the name YHWH (Yahweh)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Naked I came from my mother's womb,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and naked I will depart.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;may the name of the LORD be praised.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Job 1:21&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 14:1--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 14:1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 19:1--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The heavens declare the glory of God;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the skies proclaim the work of his hands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 19:1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 23:1-3 (NASB)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The LORD is my shepherd,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall not want.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He makes me lie down in green pastures;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He leads me beside quiet waters.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He restores my soul;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He guides me in the paths of righteousness&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For His name's sake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 23:1-3 (NASB)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 28:7--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The LORD is my strength and my shield.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 28:7&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 111:10--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 111:10&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 118:22--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 118:22&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 118:26--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 118:26&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Psalm 119:105--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Psalm 119:105&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Isaiah 55:10,11 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;As the rain and the snow&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;come down from heaven,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and do not return to it&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;without watering the earth&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and making it bud and flourish,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so is my word that goes out from my mouth:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will not return to me empty,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but will accomplish what I desire&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Isaiah 55:10,11&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Isaiah 57:21 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Isaiah 57:21&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/serenity.html and http://www.aahistory.com/prayer.html The "Serenity Prayer" has been ascribed to Dr. Rheinhold Niebuhr, but its origin may be much earlier.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;God grant me the serenity&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to accept the things I cannot change;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;courage to change the things I can;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and wisdom to know the difference.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Paradoxes of Christianity" essay in his Orthodoxy book (1908). http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1994/9407clas.asp--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But to have avoided [all religious fads] has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, December 31, 2005, pg. 54.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Samuel Johnson enjoined the preachers of his time not to inveigh against those who were absent from church on Sundays by scolding those who were not absent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William F. Buckley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Joel 2:13 NIV--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Return to the LORD your God,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for he is gracious and compassionate,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;slow to anger and abounding in love,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and he relents from sending calamity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joel 2:13&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24028.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The gods help them that help themselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Aesop&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27598.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Bartlett's Quotations, 17th edition, isbn 0-316-08460-3, pg. 118, quote 11. They cite Saint Jerome (c. 342 - 420), Letter 48.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Saint Jerome&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John 19:21,22 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John 19:21,22&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 71, Part 1 (near footnote 20).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In the preceding volumes of this History, I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 27, Part 1 (near footnote 19).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] Christian clergy . . . has claimed, in every age, the privilege of dispensing honors, both on earth and in heaven.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Isaiah 55:8 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Isaiah 55:8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Romans 6:23 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Romans 6:23&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Romans 8:31 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If God is for us, who can be against us?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Romans 8:31&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Isaiah 64:4 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Isaiah 64:4&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Deuteronomy 32:35 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is mine to avenge; I will repay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Deuteronomy 32:35&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:1 Corinthians 16:13 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 16:13&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 5:21&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:2 Timothy 3:16,17 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;St. Paul, 2 Timothy 3:16,17&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:2 Timothy 4:7 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;St. Paul, 2 Timothy 4:7&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 34, Part 1 (footnote 21).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In the hands of a popular preacher, an earthquake is an engine of admirable effect.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Ephesians 2:8,9 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God -- not by works, so that no one can boast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ephesians 2:8,9&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 36, Part 5, footnote 119.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Ennodius] adds weight to the narrative of Procopius, though we may doubt whether the devil actually contrived the siege of Pavia, to distress the bishop and his flock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 36, Part 5, footnote 132.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Six years [after Severinus's death], his body, which scattered miracles as it passed, was transported by his disciples into Italy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 37, Part 1, near footnote 3.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The Ascetics] seriously renounced the business, and the pleasures, of the age; abjured the use of wine, of flesh, and of marriage; chastised their body, mortified their affections, and embraced a life of misery, as the price of eternal happiness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 38, Part 1, near footnote 38.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A sanguinary and covetous mind is not the symptom of a sincere conversion [to Christianity]: let [Clovis, King of the Franks,] show his faith by his works.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Gundobald, King of the Bugundians&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Joshua 24:15 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joshua 24:15&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John 6:68 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John 6:68&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Volume 3, General Observations On The Fall Of The Roman Empire Of The West, (not part of any chapter), near footnote 6.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 40, Part 4, near footnote 105.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] enthusiast who entered the dome of St. Sophia might be tempted to suppose that it was the residence, or even the workmanship, of the Deity. Yet how dull is the artifice, how insignificant is the labor, if it be compared with the formation of the vilest insect that crawls upon the surface of the temple!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 40, Part 5, near footnote 151.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Gothic arms were less fatal to the schools of Athens than the establishment of a new religion, whose ministers superseded the exercise of reason, resolved every question by an article of faith, and condemned the infidel or skeptic to eternal flames.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 41, Part 2, near footnote 26.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The Catholic church's] jurisdiction, wealth, and immunities, perhaps the most essential part of episcopal religion, were restored . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 42, Part 3, near footnote 100.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If a Christian power had been maintained in Arabia, [Muhammad] must have been crushed in his cradle, and Abyssinia would have prevented a revolution which has changed the civil and religious state of the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 44, Part 4, near footnote 130.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[And] the ambiguous word [of God], which contains the precept of Christ [concerning divorce], is flexible to any interpretation that the wisdom of a legislator can demand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 45, Part 1, footnote 14.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I know but of one religion in which the god and the victim [sacrifice] are the same.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://quotes4all.net/quotations/bart%20simpson/quote_510.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 47, Part 3, near footnote 83.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Justinian might have learned, "that religious controversy is the offspring of arrogance and folly; that true piety is most laudably expressed by silence and submission; that man, ignorant of his own nature, should not presume to scrutinize the nature of his God; and that it is sufficient for us to know, that power and benevolence are the perfect attributes of the Deity."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon, quoting Procopius&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 47, Part 3, near footnote 91.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Justinian] piously labored to establish with fire and sword the unity of the Christian faith.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 47, Part 3, footnote 90.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] province which had been ruined by the bigotry of Justinian, was the same through which the [Muslims] penetrated into the empire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 47, Part 4, near footnote 116.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The desire of gaining souls for God and subjects for the church, has excited in every age the diligence of the Christian priests.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 47, Part 4, near footnote 142.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The Armenians] have often preferred the crown of martyrdom to the white turban of [Muhammad] . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, March 19, 2007, pg. 54.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If there is no God, everything is permitted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dostoevsky&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, March 19, 2007, pg. 54. George Washington's Farewell Address--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Washington&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 49, Part 3, near footnote 77.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] fond alliance of the monks and females obtained a final victory over the reason and authority of man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 1, near footnote 1.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Muhammad], with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins of Christianity and of Rome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, April 16, 2007, pg. 36.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Koran divides the world into two parts: the House of Islam (the part of the world controlled by Muslims) and the House of War (that part not yet controlled by Muslims).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mario Loyola&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 3, near footnote 61--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most rational of the Arabs acknowledged [God's] power, though they neglected his worship . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 3, near footnote 73--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The moral attributes of Jehovah may not easily be reconciled with the standard of human virtue . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 4, near footnote 104.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A prophet may reveal the secrets of heaven and of futurity; but in his moral precepts he can only repeat the lessons of our own hearts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 50, Part 4, near footnote 110.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Muhammad] has not specified the male companions of the female elect, lest he should either alarm the jealousy of their former husbands, or disturb their felicity, by the suspicion of an everlasting marriage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 51, near footnote 57. ISBN 0-140-43395-3, pg. 255.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Ye Christian dogs, you know your option; the Koran, the tribute, or the sword. We are a people whose delight is in war, rather than in peace; and we despise your pitiful alms, since we shall be speedily masters of your wealth, your families, and your persons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Caled&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 51, Part 7, near footnote 164.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In the opinion of the [Saracens], the difference of religion is a reasonable ground of enmity and warfare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 52, Part 4, near footnote 86.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The Arabs'] rapacious spirit was approved and animated by the precepts of the Koran.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 59, Part 3, near footnote 86.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The successors of St. Peter appear to have followed, rather than guided, the impulse of manners and prejudice; without much foresight of the seasons, or cultivation of the soil, they gathered the ripe and spontaneous fruits of the superstition of the times.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, April 7, 2008, pg. 36. He was summarizing "a major theme of Voegelin's argument."--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Utopian desires are part of the human condition, and the craving to create a heaven on earth is the inevitable consequence of a godless society.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jonah Goldberg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Golf" id="Golf"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Golf&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Arnold Daly&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Sam Snead&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/8/61908.html, Attributed, quoted in "Golf," Greatly Exaggerated, ed. Alex Ayres (1988).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Golf is a good walk spoiled.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://thinkexist.com/quotes/lee_trevino/3.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lee Trevino&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="GoodAndEvil" id="GoodAndEvil"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Good And Evil&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is a public scandal that gives offense and it is no sin to sin in secret.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Molière&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The world is a dangerous place to live -- not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Albert Einstein&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Peter's Quotations (isbn 0-553-27140), pg. 218--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edmund Burke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of 500 yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;G. K. Chesterton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No good deed ever goes unpunished.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Brooks Thomas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If I knew . . . that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Henry David Thoreau&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francois De La Rochefoucauld&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;My only policy is to profess evil and do good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Bernard Shaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Blake&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Louis Stevenson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. G. Wells&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Bishop Beilby Porteus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Cruelties should be committed all at once.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Niccolò Machiavelli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Albert Camus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Proverbs 28:1 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The wicked man flees though no one pursues,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but the righteous are as bold as a lion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Proverbs 28:1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Molière&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/28774.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Francois De La Rochefoucauld&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Don't worry about avoiding temptation -- as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Old Farmer's Almanac&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ann Frank&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Romans 7:29 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do -- this I keep on doing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Romans 7:19&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Beware the fury of a patient man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Dryden&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/51/39151.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mae West&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joseph Conrad&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/margaret_thatcher.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, December 31, 2006, pg. 47.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he is doing is good . . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://quotationspage.com/quote/25467.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edmund Burke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/by-pricking-my-thumbs Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, lines 44, 45--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gossip" id="Gossip"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gossip&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;German Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Spanish Proverb&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Louis B. Nizer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.bartleby.com/66/36/64436.html, Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 1 (1891)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gourmet" id="Gourmet"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gourmet&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Phillip W. Haberman, Jr.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Government" id="Government"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Government&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/179.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Bernard Shaw&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the faculty of Harvard University.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William F. Buckley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John S. Caldwell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas E. Dewey&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Rogers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Barry Goldwater&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations", pg. 140. There is a nearly identical quote from Graham Sumner in "Sumner Today: selected essays of William Graham Sumner", but this appears much later than the one attributed to George Henry. But ... quotation collections and books cannot always be trusted on their sources.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Henry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Charles de Gaulle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The supply of government exceeds the demand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lewis H. Lapham&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Every nation has the government it deserves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Joseph Marie de Maistre&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:H. L. Mencken's "A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8)", pg.482--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Paine&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Orson Welles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The federal government has three duties. Print the money, deliver the mail, and declare war.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Florence King&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is very little to admire in bureaucracy, but you have got to hand it to the Internal Revenue Service.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James L. Rogers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Carl Becker&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Any doctrine that . . . weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action . . . helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;John Dewey&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will and Ariel Durant&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oscar Ameringer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William F. Buckley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jon Wynne-Tyson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Calvin Coolidge&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The office of President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jimmy Breslin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Clarence Darrow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Abraham Lincoln&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In all my years of public life I have never obstructed justice . . . Your President is no crook!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Richard M. Nixon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Adlai Stevenson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Friedrich Hayek&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24448.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Who shall guard the guardians themselves? (&lt;em&gt;quis custodiet ipsos custodes?&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Juvenal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Niccolò Machiavelli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There is a homely adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Theodore Roosevelt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jan C. Smuts&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Rogers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Aneurin Bevan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Milton Friedman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Will Rogers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, General Editor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.pitara.com/reference/quotations/quotes-by-keywords.asp?quotation-keywords=akass http://referenceshelf.in/quotations/quotesearch.asp?counter=0&amp;amp;searchwords=Jon+Akass Also: "Politics Today," By Conservative Party (Great Britain). Research Dept Published by Conservative Research Dept., 1977 Page 338.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The Labour Party Marxists see the consequences of their own folly all around them and call it the collapse of capitalism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Jon Akass&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:From Thomas Sowell's quotes. He sites: Linda Bowles, "The Weaning Process," Washington Times, December 20, 1994, pg. A16.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Linda Bowles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:From Thomas Sowell's quotes. He sites: Frederick Douglass, "What the Black Man Wants," Negro Social and Political Thought 1850 - 1920: Representative Texts, edited by Howard Brotz (1962), pg. 283.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Everybody has asked the question . . . "What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frederick Douglass&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:A New Dictionary of Quotations (isbn 394-40079-8), Mencken, pg. 482.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Stanislaus Leszcynski&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Prejudices: Sixth Series[1827]: "From the Memoirs of a Subject of the United States", pg. 57--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Prejudices: Sixth Series[1827]: "From the Memoirs of a Subject of the United States", pg. 57--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites "The Library" in The American Mercury, August 1927, pg. 507.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse -- that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Living Philosophies [1931, ed. by Will Durant], pp 192 - 193.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:John Webb's quotations. He sites Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks [1956], pg. 220.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/q109937.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:"You Don't Say" by Fred Gielow (isbn 0-9603938-2-X) pg. 210--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.freedomsnest.com/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ayn Rand&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, June 28, 2004, pg. 17.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William F. Buckley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/keyword/campaign/ Also quoted without attribution in National Review, September 27, 2004, pg. 18.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mario Cuomo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31952.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Dave Barry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1402.html They cite P. J. O'Rourke US humorist &amp;amp; political commentator (1947 - )--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, May 9, 2005, pg. 8.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Government's modus operandi:] If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 26, Part 5 (near footnote 103).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that, or any other, consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon, regarding the duplicitous Roman massacre of unarmed Goths&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson, et al.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson, et al.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[We] hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Jefferson, et al.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Plutarch's Morals, Moralia. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. Corrected and Revised by William W. Goodwin, with an Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5 Volumes. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878). http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0062.01--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He [is] the worst governor who [cannot] govern himself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cato the Elder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Plutarch's Morals, Moralia. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. Corrected and Revised by William W. Goodwin, with an Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5 Volumes. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878). http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0062.01--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Governors ought to gain nothing by their governments but honor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Cato the Elder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 31, Part 6 (near footnote 183).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Romans 13:4 (NIV)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The one in authority] does not bear the sword for nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;St. Paul, Romans 13:4&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 35, Part 3, near footnote 77.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edward Gibbon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.lpboulder.com/quotes/--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Washington&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.lpboulder.com/quotes/ Mark Twain (1866)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html "Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government", (ISBN 0802139701) pg. 232.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The whole idea of government is this: if enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;For the people in government . . . Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever [is] special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who have another agenda yet: to cater to the temporary whims and fads of the public and the press.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it [is] done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, February 11, 2008, pg. 56. Also, "The Force of Poetry," By Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0198183267, pg. 60.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;How small, of all that human hearts endure,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26262.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Frank Herbert&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, February 25, 2008, pg. 66.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Expanded unemployment benefits . . . expand unemployment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Author unidentified&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, April 7, 2008, pg. 42. The article ascribes this quote to Donnersmarck, but it isn't surrounded by quotation marks. So, the writer may be summarizing Donnersmarck's thoughts.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[East German's] were brought up to identify totally with the state; they may be slow to realize the extent to which they were victimized by the state.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Attributed)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;H. L. Mencken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Cato Institute 2007 Annual Report--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Government doesn't solve problems; it subsidizes them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, December 15, 2008, pg. 42.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Public spending expands to absorb all available tax revenues. . . . Public borrowing expands to absorb all available means of finance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Lewis E. Lehrman &amp;amp; John D. Mueller (variation on Parkinson's Law)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Article: "What Are They Buying?" by Thomas Sowell, January 27, 2009. http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/01/27/what_are_they_buying?page=1--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The government is] now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s -- use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Thomas Sowell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order, he will have to learn that in this, as in all other fields where essential complexity of an organized kind prevails, he cannot acquire the full knowledge which would make mastery of the events possible. He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Friedrich von Hayek&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33006.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;P. J. O'Rourke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://quotationspage.com/quote/23826.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Edmund Burke&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gratitude" id="Gratitude"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gratitude&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2590.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Pierre Charron&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/9471.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Eric Hoffer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, April 30, 2007, pg. 36.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[Where] gratitude is felt, resentment can never be very far behind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;James W. Ceaser&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:National Review, March 24, 2008, pg. 28.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William F. Buckley&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Greatness" id="Greatness"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Greatness&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;A great ship asks deep water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;George Herbert&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor the great scholars great men.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Robert Frost&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Theodore Roosevelt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Theodore Roosevelt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2346.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Grief" id="Grief"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Grief&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29563.html--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Benjamin Disraeli&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Guilt" id="Guilt"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Guilt&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2. http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/lady-doth-protest-too-much-methinks--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;The lady doth protest too much, methinks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;William Shakespeare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gun" id="Gun"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gun&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/761.html They cite Al Capone US gangster (1899 - 1947).--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="author"&gt;Al Capone&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;a name="Gunpowder" id="Gunpowder"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Gunpowder&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;!--Source:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon. Chapter 65, Part 3, near footnote 93.--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discov
