- 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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