Quotes, June 2003
02. The world’s as ugly, ay, as sin,
And almost as delightful.
- Frederick Locker-Lampson
03. "If everybody minded their own business", the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does".
- Lewis Carroll (from "Alice in Wonderland")
04. It’s not a successful climb unless you enjoy the journey.
- Dan Benson
05. Good fences make good neighbors.
- Robert Frost
No quotes June 6-9 due to trip to Sweden.
10. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernhard Shaw
11. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
- Owen Meredith
12. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
13. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Colton
14. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Richard Steele
15. Heathen: A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
- Ambrose Bierce
16. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
17. Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things.
- George Carlin
18. A kiss on your hand may make you feel very, very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.
- Anita Loos
19. The fool wonders; the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
20. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke
21. He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
- James Russell Lowell
22. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- Robert Heinlein
23. Be wise with speed,
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
24. He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
- Thomas Paine
25. I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
- George Bernhard Shaw
26. A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheeta.
- Ronald Reagan
27. Most women are not so young as they are painted.
- Max Beerbohm
28. Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernhard Shaw
29. Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
- Robert Heinlein
30. It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
- Sir Roger L’Estrange
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