Thoughtful Thursday

"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."
- Ogden Nash

"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
- Andy Rooney

"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much."
- Albert Schweitzer

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell

"A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
- H.G. Wells

"Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized."
- A. Eustace Haydon

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
- William Butler Yeats