“No one is as wrong as the man who thinks he knows all the answers.”

 

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
—Oscar Wilde

“ It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
—Herman Melville

“If you needed wild cows cleaned out of rough country, he was your man.”
—David Hartman, on Facebook

“In the covered wagon days, if a baby was born in Texarkana while the family was crossing into the Lone
Star State, by the time they reached El Paso, the baby would be in the third grade.”
—Wallace O. Chariton

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
—Henry David Thoreau

“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
—Daniel Dennett

“Some people don’t understand that sitting in your own house alone in peace, eating snacks and minding
your own business is priceless.”
—Tom Hardy

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
—Aldous Huxley

“For many people, the talents that bloom later in life are more consequential than the ones that bloom early.”
—David Brooks

 

Monk Maxwell, AY Ranch, Arizona, 1982

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