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This is a random collection of interesting quotes and thoughts that my father has collected over several years. It includes just about everything from philosophy, faith, ideology, and government, to general observations on life and humorous one-liners that he didn't want to forget. I hope you enjoy and perhaps glean something of value.

Where possible, we have endeavored to accurately source all quotations.

Food for Thought

  • Some Easter nourishment for the soul – 4/5/26

    “You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” C. S. Lewis [1898-1963] British author and lay theologian

  • A Cerebral feast – 3/25/26

    “Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.” R. M. Williams [1908-2003] Australian bushman and entrepreneur

  • Brain candy – 3/24/26

    “A son is a son until he takes a wife. A daughter is a daughter for the rest of your life.” Old Irish Proverb

  • Another point to ponder – 3/23/26

    “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison [1847-1931] American Inventor and Businessman

  • Some intellectual nourishment – 3/22/26

    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] American novelist and journalist

  • Feed your brain – 3/21/26

    “Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde [1854-1900] Irish Author, Poet, and Playwright

  • Something to chew on – 3/20/26

    “The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.” Blaise Pascal [1623-1662] French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and theologian

  • A point to ponder – 3/19/26

    “Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.” “Ann Landers” A pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943, later taken over by Esther Lederer in 1955. “Ask Ann Landers” advice column ran in newspapers nationwide for 56 years.

  • Expand your mind’s horizons – 3/18/26

    “I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.” Albert Camus [1916-1960] French philosopher and journalist

  • Intellectual Nourishment – 3/17/26

    “Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?” Lily Tomlin [1939-] American actress, comedian and producer