“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions”
Voltaire
“Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion”
Mark Twain
“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”
“He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river”
Abraham Lincoln
“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness." ~”
Contributed by: Randi
Bob Hope