Quotes, June 2006
01. It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus
02. Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
- Abraham Maslow
03. It is not every question that deserves an answer.
- Thomas Fuller
04. Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
- Henry L. Mencken
05. A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody.
- Richard Needham
06. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson
07. When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
08. There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.
- Edmund Burke
09. The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
- Vince Lombardi
10. Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
11. Ridicule is the best test of truth.
- The Earl of Chesterfield
12. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin
13. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
14. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
- James Russel Lowell
15. Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
- Thucyclides
16. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
- Dale Carnegie
17. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
- Dave Barry
18. Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
19. We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
- Oscar Wilde
20. Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
21. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.
- Ronald Reagan
22. Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
- William Jennings Bryan
23. The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
- Henry L. Mencken
24. America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
- Eric Hoffer
25. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
- James Madison
No quotes June 26 - July 16 due to vacation.
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