===Mark Twain (1835-1910)



-- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

-- I don't give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one way.

-- Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

-- Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

-- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

-- I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

-- Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

-- To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

-- We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

-- When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

-- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

-- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

-- Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

--A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

-- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

-- I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

-- Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

===Allen Ginsberg

-- Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.

===Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)



-- When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

-- Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

-- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

-- Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

-- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-- Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

-- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

-- In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

-- Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

-- Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

===John Renmerde



-- When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship.

===William Shakespeare



-- The course of true love never did run smooth.

-- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

-- Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

-- I bear a charmed life.

-- He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

-- He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

-- Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

-- Farewell, fair cruelty.

-- Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!

-- Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- For my part, it was Greek to me.

-- The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

-- Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

-- The wheel is come full circle.