“They’re good kids as far as kids run, but who likes runny kids?” G. Roger Burgess, (our dad and father of five) ,in about 1975

“Many are cold, but few are frozen.” Hugh Frohbieter, my father-in-law and lifelong Wyoming resident.

“You can observe a lot by watching”. Yogi Berra

“I’m going to write you name down here in all capitals, because most small businessmen I know are undercapitalized.” John Watenpaugh, one of our first lumber salesman

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started” Mark Twain

“You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.” H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” George Bernard Shaw

“That there is and things boys, I guess we’ll just wait." Samuel Baird, my grandmother’s employer in about 1930, upon discovering that the womenfolk had neglected to prepare potatoes for the noon meal that he and his hired men had come in from the fields for.

“I think, therefore I am” Rene Descartes

“If I had nine of my fingers missing, I wouldn’t type any slower.” Mitch Hedberg

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of bleeding, he sings.” Robert Benchley

“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” Benjamin Franklin

‘Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” Lord Byron

“Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.” Euripedes

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” Horace Walpole

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.” Benjamin Franklin

“Look on beauty, and you shall see, ‘tis purchased by the weight.” William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice.

“When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.” Voltaire

“Tact is the ability to describe others the way they see themselves.” Abraham Lincoln

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Dorothy Parker

“By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature’s softened, and more gentle grows.” Ovid

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” Plato

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” Oscar Wilde

“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.” Aesop

“A speech should be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to create interest.” Winston Churchill

“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.” Terry Pratchett

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea, but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” Abraham Lincoln

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.” George Burns

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it’s original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

“In taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior.” Sir Frances Bacon

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde

“Education is a method where by one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.” Laurence J. Peter

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.” Confucius

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things into it.” Terry Pratchett

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” Mark Twain

“Vows were ever brokers to defiling.” William Shakespeare

“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the hotel business.” Dave Barry

“The most important work you or I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.” Harold B. Lee

“No legacy is as rich as honesty.” William Shakespeare

“In spite of the high cost of living, it’s still popular.” Laurence J. Peter

“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.” George Bernard Shaw

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives a formal education.” Albert Einstein

“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.” Van Goethe

“We can not but pity the boy who has never fired a gun. He is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.” Henry David Thoreau

“Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.” Will Rogers

“Brevity is the soul of wit.” William Shakespeare

“Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” Mark Twain

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine, or idealism.” Carl Jung

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell Animal Farm

“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” Benjamin Franklin

“Ignorance never settles a question.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.” Laurence J. Peter

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw

“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.” Will Rogers

“It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.” C.S. Lewis

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” Benjamin Franklin

“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.” Ronald Regan

“Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can, seldom found in women, and never in a man.” Mildred Frohbieter, my mother in law

“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” Dwight Eisenhower

“For animals, the entire universe is neatly divided into things to (a) mate with (b) eat (c) run away from, and (d) rocks”. Terry Pratchett

‘It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.” Bertrand Russell

“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” Henry David Thoreau

“It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.” Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.” H.L. Mencken

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

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” Thomas Edison

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.” Samuel Johnson

“Delay not, swift the flight of fortune’s greatest favors.” Seneca

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from reading a book.” Henry David Thoreau

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” P.J. O’Rourke

“The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.” Laurence J. Peter