A despairing, shell-shocked war soldier in Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’:

“Twenty two years old,weak,hot,frightened,not daring to acknowledge the fact that he didn’t even know who or what he was…with no past, no language, no tribe, no source, no address book, no comb, no pencil, no clock, no pocket handkerchief, no rug, no bed, no can opener, no faded postcard, no soap, no key, no tobacco pouch, no soiled underwear and nothing nothing nothing to do…”

ALEXANDER POPE

People should never be ashamed to own they have been in the wrong,which is but to say they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

JOHN P ROCHE

In politics,a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

W C FILEDS

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

CHESTER BOWLES

Government is too big and important to be left to politicians.

B F SKINNER

Education is what survives when what you have learnt has been forgotten.

GOETHE

They who seize the right moment,are the right people.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Don't tell your friends their social faults,they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

The act of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

WILLIAM BLAKE

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies that you can invent.

VOLTAIRE

Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.

SENECA

Many persons might have attained wisdom,had they not assumed that they already possessed it.

UNKNOWN

There is so much good in the worst of us
And there is so much bad in the best of us
That it ill behoves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

Whether there is a heaven or not,let us deserve one.

OSCAR WILDE

The worst thing about having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

TONI MORRISON

Definitons belong to the definers,not to the defined.

ROBERT BROWNING

Reach for something beyond your grasp.

MARK TWAIN

No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

EMERSON

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying.