Quotes, December 2002
01. Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
- Sigmund Freud
02. A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.
- Burt Bacharach
03. When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
- Jane Welsh Carlyle
04. A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.
- Gotthold E. Lessing
05. For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin
06. When a man is tired of London he is tired of life.; for there is in London all that life can afford.
- Samuel Johnson
No quotes Dec 07-09 due to trip to London.
10. I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
- Jonathan Swift
11. Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Appius Claudius
12. People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
13. The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
- Peter Drucker
14. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
- Rudyard Kipling
15. Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.
- Robert Heinlein
16. We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
17. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
18. Justitia est regina virtutum
[Justice is queen of the virtues]
- Latin proverb
19. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
20. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Derment
21. A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
-Marcus Aurelius Antonius
22. The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
23. Evangelist: A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbours.
- Ambrose Bierce
24. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell
25. Help preserve your child's belief in Santa Claus. Tell him or her that Santa will send them to hell if they don't believe in him.
- Unknown
26. Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
- Voltaire
27. The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
28. So man gods, so many creeds
So many paths that wind and wind
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
29. If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?
- Bill Maher
30. It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
- Hilaire Belloc
31. We take no note of time
But from its loss.
- Edward Young
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