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Lord Acton, a British historian of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

From Winston Churchill:

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.  If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.  But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made  more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will say, " This was their finest hour!" 

Steve Jobs  †2011

"There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going. It's what kept me five years ago, it's what kept me going 10 years ago when the doors were almost closed. And it's what will keep me going five years from now whatever happens."

Another one from Flip Wilson."What you see is a whole lot more than what you gunna get".

(Geraldine- Flip Wilson) hahaha!

Life is difficult, Death is peacefull, Its the transition that is trouble some.

Its not true, that life is one damn thing after another,,,, Its one dame thing, over and over.

Get busy living or get busy dieing from the SHAWSHANK redemption..

Run like there is something nasty and terrible chasing for there is some nasty and terrible chasing you! DOCTOR WHO  from the

Thank you Spaceghost - I will send you more - I am always writing them down - all over the place - when I return from being in hospital. Glad you like them too.

" I used to be Snow White,....but I drifted.".....Mae West

"Love can never grow old, Locks may lose their brown and gold, Cheeks may fade and hollow grow, But the hearts that love will know Never winter's frost and chill, Summer's warmth is in them still." Anonymous

One does not love another if one does not accept anything from him". Anonymous

True understanding is deeper in meaning than mere words, and is important for its result, not pretty rhetoric. Those who can verbalize their happiness have little happiness o speak of. My love has grown so much that I can't tell even half of it in words.” Paraphrasing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 

"My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses". John Keats (Letters to Fanny)

"Don't wait for the one you can live with, wait for the one you can't live without."

"When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love." Robert Fulghum

"Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words." Margaret Mitchell

The person who said: All is fair in love and war, Obviously wasn't the person being hurt!" Neve Campbell

"Peace is an expression of love; let's make love". Anonymous

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners & change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak & hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us". Narrator in The Wonder Years (1988)

"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread." Robert Burton

"You will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm."    Colette

Spaceghost, I hve more. if your intrested.?

A unknown pilot quote" I'll rather be down here than being up there wishing I was down here".

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Mama all ways said life is like a box of chocolates you never no what you might git t

This is a misquote by one word: WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE AND NOT A DROP TO DRINK...

We have a Master that was persecuted ,what make you think you wont be?

I would rather be remembered by the footprints (hopefully good ones) I left in someone's heart than by tracks left on others backs.

How kind of you spaceghost - my thanks to you. Winston Churchill - "If you're going through hell - keep going"

"The road to success is the path to wisdom" William Blake.

"I have nothing to declare except my genius" Oscar Wilde.at the airport.

"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing" Oscar Wilde.

There's no defence against ignorance - just the law.  - ?

"The slightest idea for you to think you are here to help people puts you 100% ahead of the rest of the population" - ?

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day"...................Robert Frost

"In our family we don't divorce men-----we bury them."..............Ruth Gordon

"The police are not here to create disorder.  The police are here to preserve disorder."..................Mayor Richard Daley

"The short memories of American voters is what keeps politicians in office."................Will Rogers

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education.".........................Mark Twain

"Macho does not prove mucho"...................Zsa Zsa  Gabor

"Movies are full of people who project a mysterious something on screen that is entirely absent when you meet them.".............Dick  Cavett

" It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and I refused".......Richard Pryor

"Seen one president, you've seen them all.".................Henry Kissinger

One of my personal favorites....." How many polyesters did you kill to make that suit?"................Steve Martin....

" I don't need bodyguards"...............Jimmy Hoffa

" I can say the Lord's prayer in ten seconds"..........Evil  Knievel

"I would have made a great Pope."...................Richard Nixon

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms"....Groucho Marx

""I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language.

Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?"

George Carlin.

I'm getting sick and tired of being sick and tired~ Randy Palmer

May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead!