Quotes, October 2005
01. A short saying often contains much wisdom.
- Sophocles
02. The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
- Thomas Paine
03. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
04. Marry away your son when you will, but your daughter when you can.
- Benjamin Franklin
05. Heck, what’s a little extortion among friends?
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
06. Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
- Joe Moore
07. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
- Henry Kissinger
08. The rule is perfect: In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain
09. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
- Laurence Peter
10. No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
- Charlotte Bronte
11. The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
- Jules Renard
12. When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
13. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.
- Tryon Edwards
14. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Grover Thurber
15. Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
- Groucho Marx
16. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?
- James Madison
17. It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
- Joseph Joubert
18. Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
19. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- T. S. Eliot
20. If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
- Alfred Whitehead
21. I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
- Dolly Parton
22. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson
23. My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.
- Stephen Hawking
24. Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
25. "It’s snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven’t had an earthquake lately."
- A. A. Milne, "Winnie the pooh"
26. As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- Jonathan Swift
27. Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence Peter
28. The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
29. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
30. What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
- Denis Diderot
31. The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.
- Nancy Astor
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