There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears. Bishop Hall The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation. Tyron Edwards The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing. Boerhaave You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
US poet (1807 - 1882) But he who never sins can little boast <br> Compared to him who goes and sins no more. N. P. Willis Men are punished by their sins, not for them. Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915) Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. Norman Vincent Peale
US clergyman (1898 - 1993) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell
US comedian, political commentator, & satirist (1932 - ) Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, 1939
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