Selected Quotes

"T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly 
slowly you climb, 
it's well to remember that 
Things Take Time. T.T.T. (Acronym in Danish: Ting Tager Tid) "
   --Piet Hein - Danish polymath

"What Jesus fails to appreciate is the meek are the problem. "
   --Life of Brian (1979)

"If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride:
If turnips were watches
I would wear one by my side.
And if if’s and an’s were pots and pans,
The tinker would never work! "
   --16th century Scottish proverb

"[We] thought that once we'd climbed the mountain, it was unlikely anyone would ever make another attempt. "
   --Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer who (with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) was the first climber to reach Mount Everest's summit

"The Balkans produce more history than they can consume. "
   --Sir Winston Churchill, Attributed to, probably inaccurately 

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. "
   --Anne Lamott

"Friends tell each other how they feel with relative frequency. Siblings wait for a more convenient time, like their deathbeds. "
   --The Endless (2017), Opening quote from the film The Endless (2017)

"There's only one thing worse than growing older. Not growing older. "
   --Theron Marcus Vining

"You pays your monies, you takes your chances "
   --Theron Marcus Vining, Not original with TMV, but he used it well

"So if it's hidden, and it could be hidden, it's hidden really damn well, even from people who are on the inside. "
   --Edward Snowden, http://cnn.com

"Faith is believing what you know ain't so "
   --Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

"Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus es. (roughly: If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.) "
   --Seneca - philosopher, Epistolae, LXXI., 3.

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. "
   --Mae West, My Little Chickadee (1940)

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Diligence is the mother of good luck. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. "
   --Benjamin Franklin