“A really boring remark or conversation is a said-ative.”

Me July 9, 2004.

“One thing, however, I am very sure of: and that is, that if all mankind agreed to meet, and everyone brought his own sufferings along with him for the purpose of exchanging them for somebody else’s, there is not a man who, after taking a good look at his neighbour’s sufferings, would not be only too happy to return home with his own.”

Herodotus The Histories

“It was Macaulay who remarked that it was not pleasant to live in times about which it was exciting to read.”

Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”

“Says a passage in the Talmud” according to Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?”

Elbert Hubbard according to www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Elbert_Hubbard

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

Thomas à Kempis, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email April 20, 2022.

“Nearly every line he penned was an invitation to slumber.”

Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything (about “Geological writer James Hutton”)

“Men have no right to complain that they are naturally feeble and short-lived, or that it is chance and not merit that decides their destiny. On the contrary, reflection will show that nothing exceeds or surpasses the powers with which nature has endowed mankind, and that it is rather energy they lack than strength or length of days.”

Sallust, The Jugurthine War