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"When the perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?"

George Canning - US politician (1810)

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body."

Seneca the Elder - writer

"Education isn't something you can finish."

Issac Asimov - author

"The liberties of speaking and writing guard our other liberties."

Thomas Jefferson

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

Francois Fenelon - poet

"Stay true to the dreams of thy youth."

Herman Melville - novelist

"Anything you can imagine you can make real."

"All that is impossible remains to be accomplished."

Jules Verne

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann - novelist

"Insanity is a legal term.  Crazy is an art form."

Hunter S. Thompson - journalist

           HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY 

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others.

    but whose place no one else can take."

Gaspard Mermillod - poet

"A mothers love for her child is like nothing else in the world."

Agatha Christie

"The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute."

George Bernard Shaw

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

Moliere - playwright

"A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion."

Voltaire

"The wise man does not grow old, but ripens."

Victor Hugo - poet

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words."

Victor Hugo - poet

"Everyone leaves the world a little better; some by leaving."

H. G. Wells

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

Jules Renard - author

"The creative adult is the child who has survived."

Ursula K. Le Guin -author

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

Dalai Lama

"Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?"

Jodi Picoult - author

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal....

  .... it is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston Churchill

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

Steve Martin - comedian

"A smile cures the wounding of a frown."

William Shakespeare 

"The idea is to die young as late as possible."

Ashley Montagu - anthropologist