I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. -Dwight D. Eisenhower-

For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands. -Christina Rossetti-

Life is a four-letter word. -Lenny Bruce-

(How do you get over there?) You can’t get there from here. (Well, how did the people over there get there?) They went down to the bridge and went across.

What is today but yesterday’s tomorrow? -Adam Nagella-

Veteran: It’s not that I can and other’s can’t, it’s that I did and others didn’t. -found on Facebook-

The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things / Of ships and shoes and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings / Of why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings. -Lewis Carroll-

We could save more lives by taking away pens from Democrats than we could by taking away guns from innocent people. -found on Facebook-

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible. -Calvin, “Calvin and Hobbes”-

Research shows that 90% of all research is wrong. -Michael Harris, “Newhart”-