no. 1189

 Nothing can last forever.

When the sun has shone brightly, it returns to the Ocean.

The moon wanes, though just now she was full.

The fierceness of love often becomes a gentle breeze.

- Graffiti, Pompeii, shortly before AD 79

no. 1188

 "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." 

 Aristotle

no. 1187

 "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.For the traitor appears not a traitor — He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.He rots the soul of a nation--he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city--he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."

-Cicero, Roman statesman, 42 BC

no. 1186

 "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." 

Plato

no. 1185

 "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book."

Groucho Marx

no. 1184

 “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly of them, they should have behaved better” 

 Anne Lamott

no. 1183

 "I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

Clarence Darrow, 1932

no. 1182

 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." 

Abraham Lincoln

no. 1181

 "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." 

Voltaire

no. 1180

 “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

 Bill Watterson,