The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance.

                                                                                           Paul Johnson

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

                                                                                            F.A. Hayek

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

                                                                                            C.S. Lewis

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew;

if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die and we should be savages again.

                                                                                             Will Durant

We look at the world once, in childhood.  The rest is memory.

                                                                                              Louise Gluck

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only

brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

                                                                                           Jane Austen  Pride and Prejudice

True friends stab you in the front.

                                                Oscar Wilde

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

                                                                                             Malachy McCourt 

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much!

                                                                                             Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable, we have to alter it every six months.

                                                                                             Oscar Wilde

Do not attack me with your watch.

A watch is always too fast or too slow.

I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

                                           Jane Austen  Mansfield Park

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

                                Jane Austen         Emma