A Pen Tangle of Quotes

I've been tagged by Beep Beep It's Me (and that name reminds me... we actually saw a roadrunner crossing the road today) for a five-quote meme. Here they are, five quotes, both wacky and wise:

1. The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. -- Mark Twain, Advice to Youth

2. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. -- Bertrand Russell

3. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln

4. Mars is essentially in the same orbit... somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. -- National Space Council Chairman and Vice-President of the United States Dan Quayle

5. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on--while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man--for precisely the same reasons. --Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


I am tagging niCk and Nava. You're it!!