Escape

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese proverb

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908 - 1973

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
- Steven Patrick Callahan

Water

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen, pen name of Karen Blixen, 1885 - 1962

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.
- Lao-Tzu

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519

If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
- Loren Eiseley, 1907 - 1977

Women are like tea bags, You never know how strong they really are until you put them in hot water.
- Nancy Reagan

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

Filthy water cannot be washed.
- African Proverb

It is wise to bring some water, when one goes out to look for water
- Arab Proverb

Man is a complex being; he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
- Gil Stern

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.
- Lao-Tsze

The noblest of the elements is water
- Pindar, 476 B.C.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.
- Chinese Proverb

Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.
- Philippine proverb

March

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931)

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881

Don't ever become a pessimist ... A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
- Robert A. Heinlein, 1907 - 1988

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911 - 1978

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
- Emile Zola, 1840 - 1902

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

Mr Rogers

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

I love whimsy, don’t you? If you’re going to be working for children, you need to do your best not to lose your childlikeness ... it's wonderful to be able to just be yourself.

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

There's a generous current in the American spirit. And if we can simply give voice to that once in a while, I think it's a good message.

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable

I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always tried to understand the other person and invariably I've discovered that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong way many times.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
- All from Fred McFeely Rogers, 1928 - 2003

About:
Fred McFeely Rogers was born at Latrobe, Pennsylvania on 20 Mar in 1928. His bachelor's degree from Rollins College was in musical composition, but he went directly into television. He was hired by WQED Pittsburgh when that educational station wasn't yet on the air and developed their early children's programs. After work he went to seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. He composed over 200 songs and wrote several books for children and their parents. For more than thirty years, Mr Rogers walked onto the set of Mr Rogers' Neighborhood, set aside his sport coat and put on a red cardigan sweater, and talked straight to America's kids.

Birds

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke, 1852 - 1933

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
- Eubie James Herbert Blake, 1883 - 1983

The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
- William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890 - 1995

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
- Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Aesop

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- Belva Plain

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than theway in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it wasbefore.
- Robert Lynd

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
- Chinese Proverb

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able tosing like a bird.
- Jewish Proverb

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does notgrasp.
- John Berry

The early bird gets the worm.
- American Proverb

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up thePhoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
- Anne Baxter

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- C. ArchieDanielson

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke;The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wiseold bird?
- Edward Hersey Richards

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she mayhop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly withthem to heaven.
- Francis Beaumont

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
- P. D. James

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
- Spiro T. Agnew

Assassination

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
- Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912 - 1989

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
- Indira Nehru Gandhi, 1917 - 1984

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 1694 - 1778

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
- Harry S Truman, 1884 - 1972

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
- Charles Krauthammer

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

- Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945

Assassination has never changed the history of the world

- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...

- J. G. Ballard

Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Imagination is more important than knowledge

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet

The important thing is not to stop questioning

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- All from Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

About:
Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, Germany on 14 Mar 1879. No body needs a background on the author of today's quotes. Given how intelligent the man was, it shouldn't come as a surprise that he had a number of choice comments on the fools around him.