Quotes, May 2004
01. The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.
- Ludwig von Mises
02. Imagine there’s no heaven; it’s easy if you try
No hell below us, above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there’s no countries; it isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
- John Lennon
03. Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
- Heinrich Heine
04. Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
- Unknown
05. This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
- Horace Walpole
06. You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't.
- Unknown
07. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
- Groucho Marx
08. A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh."
- Conan O’Brien
09. A creed is a rod,
And a crown is of night:
But this thing is God:
To be man with thy might,
To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit,
And live out thy life as the light.
- A. C. Swinburne
10. Hell is a city much like London.
- Percy B. Shelley
11. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
- Oscar Wilde
12. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, `The Copper Beeches’
13. Et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos.
[And the Britons completely isolated from the whole world.]
- Virgil
14. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love
Nor a friend to know me
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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No quotes for May 15-23 due to trip to London & Oxford
24. If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.
- George Winters
25. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
- Joseph Epstein
26. Every man paddles his own canoe.
- Captain Frederick Marryat
27. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard Feynman
28. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.
- Franklin P. Jones
29. The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.
- Dave Barry
30. All thinking men are atheists.
- Ernest Hemingway
31. Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
- Unknown
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