When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. (Euripedes)

"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" (Dr. Seuss)

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." (Alexander Graham Bell)

"I am anti all cards. Each time I am offered a piece of 'loyalty' plastic from a shop, I run from the place to be disloyal somewhere else." (Sandi Toksvig)

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure." (Dan Quayle)

"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes." (Dave Barry)

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." (David Friedman)

"I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations." (Samual Johnson)

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter." (Mark Twain)

"Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby." (Yip Harburg)

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone." (Rudyard Kipling)

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." (George Moore)

"As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream." (John Bunyan)

"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air." (Thomas Gray)

"The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul." (Linda Knight)

"By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid.
The rose-lipped girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade." (A E Housman)

"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." (E. Joseph Cossman)

"The wildest of all animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." (Rudyard Kipling)

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." (Alfred North Whitehead)

"Here rests his head upon the lap of earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own." (Thomas Gray)

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." (Bertrand Russell)

"He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness - the sense that that is where we really belong." (Graham Greene)

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." (Anna Sewell)

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things." (Samuel Madden)

"We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours." (Golda Meir)

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde)

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family- in another city." (George Burns)

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." (George Bernard Shaw)