Thoughtful Thursday

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
- John Milton

"In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst."
- Oscar Wilde

"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
- Charlotte Bronte

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
- Joseph Brodsky

"O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"
- William Shakespeare

"Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents."
- Carl Gustav Jung

"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson