Neopage

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

- English proverb


One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps
to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the
world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of
service. Think of this and act.

- Hannah More


Upon those who step into the same rivers different and
ever different waters flow down.

- Heraclitus of Ephesus

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be
smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to
think it's important.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is
inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to
liberty.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it,
and then misapplying the wrong remedies.


- All from Eugene McCarthy

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that
at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as
of the greatest virtues.

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think;
I think therefore I am.)

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole
scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve;
and bad things are very easy to get.


- René Descartes, 1596 - 1650

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a
burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries
up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify
the entire social edifice.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today
in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that
spares no one.... The challenge that is already with us is
the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is
only a new form of slavery.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills
what it intends to create.


- Pope John Paul II, 1920 - 2005

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of
others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see
nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see
nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature
is imagination itself.

- William Blake


A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened
into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward
the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

- John Anthony Ciardi,

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the
only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley


There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances
for a happy change.

- Euripides

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely
tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you
decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and
the procedure , the process is its own reward.

- Robyn Davidson



The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.

- Danish fur trapper's principle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less
mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless
crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face
is the most difficult to identify.

- Arthur Conan Doyle


Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure
and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the
artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

- Helen Hunt Jackson


Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the
face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.

- Coco Chanel

In the eternal scheme of things, this evening is as brief
as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what
eternity is made of.

The world is not always a kind place. That's something
all children learn for themselves, whether we want them
to or not, but it's something they really need our help to
understand.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to
be acceptable and to feel acceptable.


- All from Fred McFeely Rogers

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is
too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form
of every thought the greatest artist has.


- All from Michelangelo Buonarroti