Words to the Wise . . .

"Love can be sordid only if you work at it."
       -- Brooke McEldowney

 

"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door."
       -- Paul Beatty

 

"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."
       -- Samuel Johnson

 

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
       -- Arthur C. Clarke