Quotes, September 2005
01. He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.
- Benjamin Disraeli
02. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain
03. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
04. The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley
05. No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.
- Goethe
06. As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
- Pythagoras
07. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
08. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- Henry L. Mencken
09. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
10. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Samuel Butler
11. Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there.
- H.L. Mencken
12. What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
- Edward Langley
13. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give it to the other.
- Voltaire
14. Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
- Will Rogers
15. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
16. Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
- Bertrand Russel
17. Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
- Lewis Grizzard
18. Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.
- H.L. Mencken
19. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy
20. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to some one else.
- Will Rogers
21. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry
22. The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
- Henry L. Mencken
23. Homosexuality is God’s way of insuring that the truly gifted aren’t burdened with children.
- Sam Austin
24. I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
- Mark Twain
25. I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it at all, existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
- H. G. Wells
26. The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
- Kin Hubbard
27. It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
- Franklin P. Jones
28. Little things affect little minds.
- Benjamin Disraeli
29. He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.
- Benjamin Franklin
30. In the long run we are all dead.
- John Maynard Keynes
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