Quotes, September 2004
01. Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.
- Benjamin Disraeli
02. Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
- Agatha Christie
03. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- E. B. White
04. Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
05. Praying is like a rocking chair - it’ll give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.
- Gypsy Rose Lee
06. To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
- Teddy Roosevelt
07. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
- Pearl Bailey
08. When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift
09. Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
- John Keats
10. One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
- Oscar Wilde
11. These are the times that try men's souls.
- Thomas Paine
12. The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
- Francis Bacon
13. A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooks Adams
14. "Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
- Frank Capra
15. Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm
16. Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
17. The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
- Joseph Joubert
18. A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Margaret Fuller
19. Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
- Elbert Hubbard
20. A scholar knows no boredom.
- Jean Paul Richter
21.The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
22. I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
- Isaac Asimov
23. Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
- Juvenal
24. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- Henry L. Mencken
25. By the work one knows the workman.
- Jean de la Fontaine
26. Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchley
28. I don’t want to be quoted, and don’t quote me that I don’t want to be quoted.
- Winston Burdett
29. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
30. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- William Somerset Maugham
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