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Lloyd Keeland, 1920-2011

I think your life expectancy was about 20 seconds.

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

was an Irish dramatist and socialist

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

Margaret (Frances) Culkin Banning, 1891-1982

was a best-selling American author of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

John Strider Coleman, 1897-1958

was an American business executive

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

was an English poet and playwright

I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.

Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696

was a French moralist

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953

was a Welsh poet

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

( in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees, 1960 )

A(lfred) E(dward) Housman, 1859-1936

was an English classical scholar, poet, and satirist

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Aesop, 620 BC-560 BC

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Ellen DeGeneres, 1958-

is an American stand-up comedian, television host and actress

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for — in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

George Macdonald, 1824-1905

was a Scottish novelist and poet

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Nicholas Rowe, 1674-1718

was an English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer

Death is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking.

( “The Fair Penitent”, 1703 )

Ulysses S(impson) Grant, 1822-1885

was an US general and politician

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

was a French poet

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

José Ortega y Gasset, 1883-1955

was a Spanish philosopher and politician

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.