Quotes, January 2005
01. The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
- George F. Will
02. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Richard Dawkins
03. One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
- Woodrow Wilson
04. When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- Thomas Paine
05. Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
- The Earl of Chesterfield
06. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon
07. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
08. The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon
09. The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.
- Donald G. Smith
10. Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
- Michel De Montaigne
11. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson
12. The honeymoon is over when he phones that he’ll be late for supper - and she has already left a note that it’s in the refrigerator.
- Bill Lawrence
13. The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
- Albert Camus
14. How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?
- Jonathan Swift
15. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain
16. What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
17. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Goethe
18. Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
- Van Wyck Brooks
19. The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
20. Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
21. May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
22. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin
23. Universal deities... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What’s the point of having omnipotence if you don’t enjoy it?
- Jack McDevitt
24. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Alva Edison
25. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
26. There is a budding morrow in midnight.
- John Keats
27. Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
28. I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
- Mauritis Escher
29. No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
- Ronald Reagan
31. It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
- H. W. Longfellow
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