Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. 

~ William Shenstone, poet (18 Nov 1714-1763) 

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs die not in sport, but in earnest. 

~ Bion of Borysthenes, philosopher (c. 325-250 BCE) 

Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong. 

~ Kane O'Hara, composer and playwright (1711/1712-1782) 

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power. 

~ P.J. O'Rourke, writer (b. 14 Nov 1947) 

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. 

~ Vietnamese proverb 

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. 

~ Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (9 Nov 1934-1996) 

Your voice dries up if you don't use it. 

~ Patti Page, singer (8 Nov 1927-2013) 

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. 

~ Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate (7 Nov 1867-1934) 

A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. 

~ Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935) 

Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live. 

~ Annie Laurie Gaylor, freethinker and activist (b. 2 Nov 1955) 

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. 

~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711) 

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. 

~ Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972) 

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. 

~ Evelyn Waugh, novelist (28 Oct 1903-1966) 

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. 

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (25 Oct 1800-1859) 

I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me. 

~ Sarah Josepha Hale, writer and editor (24 Oct 1788-1879) 

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, and philosopher (21 Oct 1772-1834) 

Life is mostly froth and bubble, 

Two things stand like stone,

Kindness in another's trouble, 

Courage in your own.

~ Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870) 

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. 

~ Isadora James 

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. 

~ Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)