Quotes, August 2003
01. There is nothing good to be had in the country.
- William Hazlitt
02. If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others.
- De La Rochefoucauld
03. It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.
- St. Augustine
04. A learned fool is more is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
- Molière
05. An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
- Orlando A. Battista
06. Susie: You’d get a good grade without doing any work.
Calvin: So?
Susie: It’s wrong to get rewards you haven’t earned.
Calvin: I’ve never heard of anyone who couldn’t live with that.
- Bill Watterson, 'Calvin and Hobbes'
07. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
- John Milton (from "Paradise Lost")
08. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee (from "To Kill A Mockingbird")
09. Wail, for the world's wrong!
- Percy B. Shelley
10. All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
- Fran Lebowitz
11. Selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.
- C. Day Lewis (from "Walking Away")
12. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- Charles Colton
13. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked me for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple
14. Impropriety is the soul of wit.
- William Somerset Maugham
15. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
- Oscar Wilde
16. Where your mind wanders, your life follows.
- Sonny Hassam-Walker
17. If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
- Mark Twain
18. Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
19. Bargain: Something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.
- Franklin P. Jones
20. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire
21. The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
- Dave Barry
22. I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don’t know I’m only using blanks.
- Emo Phillips
23. Take the saving lie from the average man and you take his happiness away, too.
- Henrik Ibsen
24. On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
25. I do most of my work sitting down, that’s where I shine.
- Robert Benchley
26. Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
- Don Marquis
27. Hell is full of musical amateurs, music is the brandy of the damned.
- George Bernhard Shaw
28. I don’t want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn
29. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that wouldn’t work.
- Thomas Edison
30. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert
31. When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.
- Joseph Lewis
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