Quotables

I haven’t done this for a time.  So here’s a round of quotable quotes.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.  – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy.  It’s the cheapest of the pleasures, costs nothing and conveys much.  It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed. -author unknown

You never have to change what you see – only the way you see it. -author unknown

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.  Woody Allen

The world would be better off if people tried to become better.  And people would become better if they stopped trying to be better off. ~Peter Maurin

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. –Harper Lee