"The best welfare program is a job."

"The best welfare program is a job."

~ Ronald Reagan

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love"

 "Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

~ Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian Political Leader (1869-1948)

Trust, but verify.

"Trust, but verify."

~ Ronald Reagan

Truth is incontrovertible

 https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/truth-is-incontrovertible/

‘United wishes and good will cannot overcome brute facts,’ Churchill wrote in his War Memoirs. ‘Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.’

~ Winston Churchill, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940-1945 during the Second World War, and again 1951-1955

“The cross is steady while the world turns”

 “The cross is steady while the world turns.”

~ motto since the Middle Ages of the Carthusian monks who make Chartreuse at the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps

According to legend, in 1605, the order’s monastery near Paris acquired an alchemist’s historical manuscript for a superbly concocted medicinal tonic of about 130 herbs and crops: the “Elixir of Long Life.”

The monks studied and slowly refined the recipe till by 1764 that they had a potent (138-proof) Elixir Végétal. In 1840, they formulated a milder, 55 p.c alcohol model, Green Chartreuse, and a sweeter, 40 p.c Yellow Chartreuse, which have become cocktail components The Elixir continues to be offered medicinally for illnesses akin to indigestion, sore throat and nausea.

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

~ Booker T. Washington

Before brains the universe was free of pain and anxiety.

"Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety."

—Roger Sperry, "Changing Priorities," Annual Review of Neuroscience 4 (1981): 1-15.

Observe

 "You observe a lot by watching."

~ Yogi Berra