Quotes, November 1999
01. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no
account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
02. Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
- Dean McLaughlin
03. Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life. Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.
- Oscar Wilde
04. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
- Arthur C. Clarke
05. You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone
06. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
07. Travellers never think that THEY are the foreigners.
- Mason Cooley
***No quotes for Oct 08-21 due to a study trip to England***
22. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
23. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
- Unknown
24. After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
- Unknown
25. I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
- Carl Sandburg, American poet
26. I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
- Joseph Heller
27. I have no sympathy myself with industry of any kind, least of all with such industries as you seem to recommend. Indeed, I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
- Oscar Wilde
28. When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
- Miles Franklin
29. I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, "It is a matter of faith, and above reason".
- John Locke
30. Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby.
- Unknown
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