Quotes, February 2005
01. I respect those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
- Charles de Gaulle
02. I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
- Ed Koch
03. Only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
- John F. Kennedy
04. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Goethe
05. We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
- Scott Adams
06. Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
- Ronald Reagan
07. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
- Benjamin Disraeli
08. Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
- Goethe
09. A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
- Samuel Johnson
10. The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
- W.H. Auden
11. Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
- John Bovee
12. The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
13. Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
- Voltaire
14. Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H.L. Mencken
15. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
16. Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin
17. Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening.
- Franklin P. Jones
18. During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
- Bernard Baruch
19. Lisa, if you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in everyday and do it really half assed. It’s the American way.
- The Simpsons
20. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow
21. One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen
22. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
23. Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
24. I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
- Teddy Roosevelt
25. It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
- Aesop
26. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
- Stanislaw Lec
27. A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
- Henry David Thoreau
28. Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
- Jean Paul Richter
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