Jotter Pad Quotes & Sayings

the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal; — Karl Polanyi

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches. — Miguel De Cervantes

The names of the compact's signers, including Anne Hutchinson's husband, Will, are listed below the text. Here lies the deepest reason why the Woman's Healing Garden strikes me as so forlorn - that Hutchinson is remembered here by pink echinacea in bloom instead of on the Portsmouth Compact plaque, where she belongs. All of the signers were there because of her, because she stood up to Massachusetts and they stood with her. But all the signers were men. Anne Hutchinson wasn't allowed to sign the founding document of the colony she founded. — Sarah Vowell

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. — Robert A. Heinlein

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing. — Homer

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country. — Chief Joseph