Gratitude, Society, Expectations, Lying

GRATITUDE
J. Kenfield Morley
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

SOCIETY
Norman Kingsley Mailer
The horror of the Twentieth Century is the size of each event and the paucity of its reverberation.

EXPECTATIONS
Martin Luther
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

LYING
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is.

Humor, The System, Opportunity, Lying

HUMOR

Oliver Herford
Lisp: To call a spade a thpade.

THE SYSTEM

Donald M. Fraser
Under current law, it is a crime for a private citizen to lie to a government official, but not for the government official to lie to the people.

OPPORTUNITY

Thomas Alva Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

LYING

James Hall
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.