Quotes, September 2003
01. Labor omnia vincit
[Labor conquers everything]
- Virgil, Roman poet 70-19 BC
02. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
03. I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher
04. When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life - now that I am old I know that it is.
- Oscar Wilde
05. The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
- John Stuart Mill
06. Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
07. All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
08. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine
09. Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson
10. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard
11. Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary. Man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
12. In America we have a lot of freedoms. One of these is the freedom to burn the flag. But we also have the freedom to own guns. And if you try to burn my flag, I'll shoot ya!
- Johnny Cash
13. Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
- P. J. O’Rourke
14. "The church and the state
Your God and Country kind
One gets your body
The other gets your mind."
- The Rainmakers, from the song "The Wages of Sin"
15. Being a politician is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and stupid enough to think that it is important.
- Eugene McCarthy
16. Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don’t feel all that comfortable with people who are.
- Mickey Manfield
17. Truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
18. I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
- Blaise Pascal
19. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan
20. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
21. A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
- Thomas Ybarra
22. Love is merely a madness.
- Shakespeare
23. Homines dum docent, discunt
[Men learn by teaching others]
- Seneca, Roman poet 4 BC - AD 65
24. Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
- Herbert Spencer
25. Reality continues to ruin my life.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
26. I like work, it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
- Jerome K. Jerome
27. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
- Woody Allen
28. Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God.
- Thomas Paine
29. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
[Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things.]
- Virgil
30. Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
- Billy Crystal
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