"No warrior scolds. Courteous words or else hard knocks are his only language."


King Tirian in The Last Battle
C.S. Lewis

"Adults are only obsolete children."


Dr. Seuss

"People who matter don't count, and people who count don't matter."

"If you're gonna stay out with the big boys, you gotta get up with the big boys."

"There's no such thing as a free lunch"


My Dad



"My big ones are eating my little ones."

"If you keep playing with/picking at that it will fall off."


and I believe these are from My Mom


Thank you!

"The man who does not read good books is no better
than the man who can't."

— Mark Twain


"To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables



thank you!

" 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever. "



Philip Pullman

who seems to get quoted/mis-quoted a lot these days...

"We can never do merely one thing."

"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."


ecologist Garrett Hardin



Hardin was primarily concerned with "bioethical" issues such as overfishing and deforestation, but his work also brought attention to the personal-to-global effects of every decision and action (or inaction) -- think ripples in a pond, think Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum's "Chaos Theory" of the butterfly wings causing hurricanes... or think of The Fixx.

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, nor by any other church. Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense."


Robert A. Heinlein

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


~Aristotle