mlk quotes on peace

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953


I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. ~Author Unknown


To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore


Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan


Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. ~Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers


The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone


Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over. ~Author Unknown


Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown


Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland


Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. ~Author Unknown


All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men. ~John Alfred Spender, The Comments of Bagshot


The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. ~Jeannette Rankin


I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ~Charles Baudelaire


A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ~Stanislaw J. Lec


My fat scares me - it's a ticking time bomb. ~Carrie Latet


One of the greatest captains of the age. ~Benjamin Franklin


When I grow up I want to be a little boy. ~Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974