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~ Famous Quotes ~Some excellent food for thought.
"In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues." | ~ Helen Rowland ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day." | ~ Mickey Rooney ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young." | ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow towards the light." | ~ May Sarton ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate." | ~ Charles Louis de Montesquieu ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"All that mankind has done, thought or been is lying in magic preservation in the pages of books." | ~ Thomas Carlyle ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." | ~ Charles W Eliot ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to those who are not yet born." | ~ Joseph Addison ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?" | ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Mankind would lose half its wisdom built up over centuries if it lost its great savings. They contain the best parts of the best books." | ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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