Quotes, June 2001
01. There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away.
- Emily Dickinson
02. Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
- John Adams
03. Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!
- George Carlin
04. God is the Asylum of Ignorance.
- Baruch Spinoza
05. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
06. Never play cards with any man named "Doc". Never eat at any place called "Mom's". And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren
07. Carpe diem
[Sieze the day]
- Latin proverb
08. All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler
09. Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
- Richard Bach
10. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
- Unknown
11. The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy
12. It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot
13. Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
- Jerry Seinfeld
14. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose
soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
- Charlotte Bronte
15. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
- Marrion Barry (former mayor)
16. The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.
- Charles Luckman
17. A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,
a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all,
the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him,
the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
- Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
***No quotes for June 18 - July 22 due to holiday in the US***
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