Boris Marshalov: Humor
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.
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Bertrand Russell: Proverb
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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Brother Kevin Hackett: Religion
Gardens evoke a distant memory, one encoded in our spiritual DNA, a recollection of Eden—and that awakens our desire to return to the place where we once walked with the Lord God in the cool of the evening.
(Society of Saint John the Evangelist)
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Wendell Phillips: Politics
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
(Orations, Speeches, Lectures, and Letters)
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President Ronald Reagan: Politics
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
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Leonardo da Vinci: Aviation
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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Anonymous: Motto
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
(No-one provokes me with impunity -Motto of the Order of the Thistle)
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Winston Churchill: Politics
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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