| Ancient world B.C. ....
- Laws are like spiders' webs: if some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a bigger one can break thgrough and get away - Solon (6th Century B.C.) Athenian Statesman
- What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing - Aristotle (384 - 322) Greek Philosopher
- Even God cannot change the past - Agathon (c. 446 - 401 B.C.) Athenian Poet and Playwright
- The good of the people is the chief law - Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.) Roman Orator & Statesman
- If you hear someone speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defind yourself you should say: 'he obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned -Epictetus (c. 60 - 110 A.D.) Stoic Philosopher
- 'Carpe Diem' - Seize the day - Horace (quintus horatius Flaccus 65 - 8 B.C.) Roman Poet
- There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it - Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.) Roman Orator & Statesman
Early A.D. to middle ages ....
- I believe because it is impossible - Tertullian (c. 160 - 225) Carthaginian Father of the Early Church
- The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church - Tertullian
- I believe that in the end the truth will conquer - John Wycliffe (1329 - 84) English Religious Reformer
- Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen - Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) German Reformer in a speech at the Diet of Worms
- Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England as I trust shall never be put out - Hugh Latimer (1485 - 1555) said to Nicholas Ridley as they were about to be burned at the stake for heresy
- How loves not wine, women and song, remains a fool his whole life long - Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) German Reformer
- A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless - James 1 (1566 - 1625) King of England, Scotland & Ireland commenting upon tobacco
The age of enlightenment ....
- It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public - Bishop Berkeley (1685 - 1753) Irish Churchman
- [music ...] the only sensual pleasure without vice - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 84) English Lexicographer
- The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room - Horace Walpole (1717 - 97) British Writer
Modern era ....
- I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German/Jewish Physicist
- How do you make God laugh? You tell him your future plans - Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg 1935 - ) American Film Director, Writer & Actor
- We're black people, except we're cloured white - Joel Peddie aged 5½ (1984 - )
- Anyone who never makes a mistake never makes anything - John Cheatle, English Christian & Businessman
- Failure: proof of having tried - John Cheatle
- A child isn't a right, it's a responsibility - Lynda Lee Potter (UK Newspaper Columnist)
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