• Henry David Thoreau once burned down 300 acres of forest trying to cook a fish.

• Abraham Lincoln once stated, “No matter how much the fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.”

• A Loony Law from the 1950’s – It was illegal for a flying saucer to land in a French vineyard.

• Cicero once stated, “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

• To quote William Randolph Hearst: “News is what people don’t want you to print. Everything else is ads.”

• Ghandi speaking about Adolf Hitler – “I do not consider him to be as bad as depicted. He’s showing an ability that is amazing, and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.”

• Sigmund Freud once stated, “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would’ve burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”

• During an interview in the 1950’s, Pope John XXIII was asked how many people work in the Vatican. He immediately stated: “About half.”

• “I would’ve made a good Pope.” – Once stated by Richard Nixon

• Random fact: License plates came before cars – as they were used on horse-drawn carriages in 1884.

This quote is one of my favorites as it applies to me:

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.” Aristotle

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I NEVER MET A HERMIT I DIDN’T LIKE