Quotes, November 2004
01. The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
- Theodor Adorno
02. If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN’T SWIM.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
03. Freedom is on the march!
- George W. Bush jr
04. The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
- Sam Ewing
05. In an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans.
- John Kerry
06. In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
- Charles de Gaulle
07. I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
- Thomas Jefferson
08. The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- Jacques Barzun
09. Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
- Goethe
10. The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
- Eric Hoffer
11. You don’t let the fox guard the chickens just because he has experience from the henhouse.
- Harry Truman
12. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
13. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer
15. We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
- Ambrose Bierce
16. The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
- Don Marquis
17. Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
18. No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
- Sam Rayburn
19. Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
- George Santayana
20. A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
- Groucho Marx
21. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams
22. The only way round is through.
- Robert Frost
23. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
- Scott Adams
24. Women are much more like each other than men. They have, in truth, but two passions: Vanity and love. These are their universal characteristics.
- The Earl of Chesterfield
25. A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
- Confucius
26. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
27. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
28. There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
29. Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
- Helena Blavatsky
30. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
- Thornton Wilder
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