“The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones.”

“We’re all worms but I do believe I’m a glow worm.” − Churchill

“God will help those who help others.”

“Lincoln was the best spokesman for our exceptionalism.”

“We’d rather pursue our rights than pursue our duties.”

“Everything is what it is and not another thing.” − Bishop Butler

“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”

“Jews don’t drink much because it interferes with their suffering.” − Berle

“Never trouble trouble ‘til trouble troubles you.”

“New options are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” − John Locke

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” − O.W. Holmes Jr.

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there is no god or there are two gods if neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” − Jefferson

“Every hero becomes a bore at last.” − Emerson

“If you can read, thank a teacher; if you can read in English, thank a soldier.”

“The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was, and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.” − L.B. Johnson, 36th president.

“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.” − Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.” − Robert Kennedy

“Primum non noceree” − first do no harm.

“Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make mud pie.” − Le Carre

“I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativism.” − Sylvia Warner

“Very few people do anything creative after the age of 35. That is because very few people do anything creative before the age of 35.” − Joel Hildebrand

“Many girls are pretty, but few are radiant.”

“We may be forced to change our way of changing our ways.” − McGehee

“A government that is big enough to supply you with everything you need is big enough to take away everything you have.” − Jefferson

“Original sin is the only Christian doctrine that requires no explanation.” − Chesterton

“Replacing reason with faith doesn’t work; you need both.” − Benedict XVI

“We’re setting ourselves up for a fall whenever we think that mankind can get things exactly right.”

“When it’s dusk in America, the shadows spread wide.” − Roger Cohen

New book titled, “Why men never remember and women never forget.”

“There are no throwaway people.”

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” − Voltaire

“You can’t step in the same river twice.”

“Yoga − take a step back − have a deep breath and stay focused.”

“Don’t fall victim to the audacity of hopelessness.”

“I think we think too much of the good luck of the early bird and not enough of the bad luck of the early worms.” − FDR

“Of course I believe in luck. How else to explain the success of those you dislike?”

“There are things far worse than illness. For instance, soullessness.” − Tony Snow

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” Shelley

Thucydides − (Greek historian - 430 B.C.) Oration on Pericles: “Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day after day; fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.”

“If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.”

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” − Eisenhower

“We are put on this earth to make others happy.” − Charlie Brown

“What are others put here for?” − Lucy

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” − T.S. Eliot

Attorney Austin Cunningham has been the president of five business companies and in 1988 was named Outstanding Elder Citizen of the Year for South Carolina.

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