Quotes, May 2005
01. Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
- Adam Smith
02. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
03. The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
- Michel De Montaigne
04. Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.
- William Blake
05. Every one lives by selling something.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
06. Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
07. A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
- James Russel Lowell
08. It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
- De La Rochefoucauld
09. You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan proverb
10. I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
- George Eliot
11. Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
- Robert A. Heinlein
12. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
- Vernon Law
13. Hated by fools and fools to hate
Be that my motto and my fate.
- Jonathan Swift
14. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
- George Meredith
15. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
- C. P. Scott
16. There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
17. A nation is just a society for hating foreigners.
- Olaf Stapledon
18. There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
- Richard Lederer
19. He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin
20. Nothing endures but personal qualities.
- Walt Whitman
21. The gallery in which the press sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
22. Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
- Flannery O’Connor
23. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
24. Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
- H. W. Longfellow
25. History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unkonwn without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
- Robert A. Heinlein
No quotes May 26-June 1 due to trip to Scotland.
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