buddha

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.  Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.  Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.  But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. 

Herbert Butterfield

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Tom Robbins

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Edward Gibbon

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

e e cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Khalil Gibran

All receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.  Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

Henry Ward Beecher

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with but.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Friedrich Nietzche

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Proverb

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.

Jenny de Vries

You own a dog but you feed a cat. 

George Mikes

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. 

Charles Dickens

What greater gift than the love of a cat? 

Stephen Baker

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat.  The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Wesley Bates

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. 

Dan Greenberg

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. 

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There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Tay Hohoff

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. 

John Russell

Sanity Calms,  but madness is more interesting.

Jane Wagner

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Douglas Adams

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know.  Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know.  Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about.  Amen. 

Colin Sautar

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.