Mamacita says:  So often, someone else can “say it” so much better than we can.  Well, better than I can, that’s for sure!

1.  It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.  –Henry Ward Beecher

2.  The dangers of knowledge are not to be compared with the dangers of ignorance.  Man is more likely to miss his way in darkness than in twilight, in twilight than in full sun.  –Whately

3.  Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.  –German motto

4.  It is better to be a beggar than ignorant, for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.  –Austippus

5.  Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.  –Josiah G. Holland

6.  A family without government is like a house without a roof, exposed to every wind that blows, like a house in flames.  A scene of confusion, and commonly too hot to live in.  –Matthew Henry

7.  Example is more forcible than precept.  People look at your six days in the week to see what you mean on the seventh.  –Richard Cecil

8.  A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.  –Edward Abbey

9. People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. –Russel Baker

10. If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you’d find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’. –Dave Barry

11. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. –Dom Helder Camara

12. Never judge a book by its movie. –J.W. Eagan  (That’s for sure!)

13. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill

14. Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson

15. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain

16. Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. –Peter Ustinov

17. When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of algebra. –Gene Yasenak

18. Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it. –Pearl S. Buck

19. Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. –Leo F. Buscaglia

20. Don’t wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. –Albert Camus

21. If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. –Dale Carnegie

22. If you aren’t rich, you should always look useful. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

23. Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn. — Miguel de Cervantes

24. There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. –Monta Crane

25. If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it. –Bette Davis

26. Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. –Henry Ford

27. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. –King George V

28. Don’t carry a grudge. While you’re carrying the grudge, the other guy’s out dancing. –Buddy Hackett

29. Never do for a child what he is capable of doing for himself. –Elizabeth G. Hainstock

30. When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. –Edgar Watson Howe

31. Have the courage to act instead of react. –Earlene Larson Jenks

32. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. –Abraham Lincoln

33. Either do as your neighbors do, or move away. –Moroccan Proverb

34. A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. –Dan Rather

35. Do what you feel in your heart to be right,  for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t. –Eleanor Roosevelt

36. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. –Carl Sandburg

37. Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? –Frank Scully

38. Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn’t reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. –Sydney Smith

39. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. –James Thurber

40. We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. –Miguel de Unamuno

41. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. –George Washington

42. The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
–William Blake

43. Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. –Leo Buscaglia

44. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. –Carlos Castaneda

45. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. –G.K. Chesterton

46. Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well. –Danish Proverb

47. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. –John Dewey

48. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
–Thomas Alva Edison

49. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. –Albert Einstein

50. An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it. –William Feather