Author Care poet Humanity Thoughts The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. - Samuel Johnson
Autumn Flowers Man No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. - Samuel Johnson
May Nothing So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. - Samuel Johnson
Hope First What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. - Samuel Johnson
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer