Quotes, November 2002
01. Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
02. Facias ipse quod faciamus suades
[Practice what you preach]
- Latin proverb
03. My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
- Garrison Keillor
04. Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
- Kin Hubbard
05. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that the only distinctly native American criminal class is Congress.
- Mark Twain
06. The chief business of the American people is business.
- Calvin Coolidge
07. Liberty… is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.
- Thomas Jefferson
08. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- William H. Borah
09. The ever growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever greater obstacles in the way of the solidaric co-operation of human beings and crushing out every possibility of new development.
- Rudolph Rocker
10. Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
- John Adams
11. Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur.
[He whom the gods favor dies young.]
- Plautus
12. I haven’t been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.
- Bob Hudson
13. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
14. We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
- De La Rochefoucauld
15. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
16. When a woman is silent it’s always because she wants to say something.
- Elinor Glyn
17. You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that WE are the ones that need help?
- Dan Barker, former priest
18. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
- James Russel Lowell
19. The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
- R. S. Surtees
20. Volenti non fit iniuria.
[To a person who consents, no injustice is done.]
- Latin proverb
21. It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
- Chinese Proverb
22. I am a kind of paranoic in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger
23. It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son and another woman twenty minutes to turn him into an idiot.
- Helen Rowland
24. It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
- Alex Carey
25. A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
- Jane Austen
26. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus
27. Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
- Alfred Hitchcock
28. The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8 m/sec/sec.
- Marcus Dolengo
29. Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
- John Ruskin
30. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
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