Quotes, January 2004
01. Cedant arma togae, concedant laurea laudi.
[Let arms give way to civic robes, laurels to paeans.]
- Cicero
02. When we build, let us think that we build forever.
- John Ruskin
03. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
04. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson
05. Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from a cornfield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
06. Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
[Nothing can be said that is so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.]
- Cicero
07. A man in love is incomplete until he has married- then he’s finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
08. There’s a sucker born every minute.
- Phineas Barnum
09. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
10. A little of what you fancy does you good.
- Marie Lloyd
11. If triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
- Montesquieu
12. It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
13. We need greater virtues to bear good fortune than bad.
- De La Rochefoucauld
14. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernhard Shaw
15. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- E. J. Phelps
16. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell
17. The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
18. The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
- Thomas Paine
19. Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns
20. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
- John Locke
21. Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
- Michel De Montaigne
22. There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.
- Richard Steele
23. Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgement.
- De La Rochefoucauld
24. I don’t need to compromise my principles, because they don’t have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist «Calvin and Hobbes»
25. To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.
- Dan Barker
26. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called "Everybody" and they meet at the bar.
- Drew Carey
27. Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
- Kin Hubbard
28. A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
- Carter Glass
29. Abusus non tollit usum
[Abuse does not exclude use]
- Latin legal expression
30. Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
31. Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.
- Jonathan Swift
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