Potpourri of quotes and proverbs

1.Old birds are hard to pluck.-German proverb
2.A wise person makes his own decisions,a weak one obeys public opinion.-Chinese proverb
3.Our schools are improving.It's childhoods that are not.-Keith Geiger.
4.Necessity has the face of a dog.-Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5.A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.-Tom Wolfe
6.The weather belongs to us all.-Margaret(Ma)Murray.
7.Superstition is the poetry of life.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8.It is better to waste one's youth than do nothing with it at all.-Georges Courteline
9.An election is a bet on the future,not a popularity test of the past.-James Reston
10.Death cancels everything but truth,and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue.It is a sort of natural canonization.-William Hazlitt.