Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

– Agatha Christie (an English writer)

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”

Truely a quote from the ancient Greek poet of Iliad and Odyssey fame but easily could have been from Homer Simpson!

“Never eat more than you can lift”

– Porcine star of stage and screen

“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”

– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”

– Edith Sitwell (a British poet and critic)

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)