Quotes, July 2006
No quotes June 26 - July 16 due to vacation.
17. As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
- Clarence Seward Darrow
18. No furniture so charming as books.
- Sydney Smith
19. I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries.
- Jules Renard
20. He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
- Philip Massinger
21. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
- Samuel Johnson
22. I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
- Leonard Bernstein
23. Men willingly believe what they wish.
- Julius Caesar
24. There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- James Truslow Adams
25. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
- Jim Rohn
26. You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
- Paul Sweeney
27. "Screw you guys, I'm goin home!"
- Cartman, "South Park"
28. There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
- Gloria Steinem
29. Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
30. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery
31. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- Walter Savage Landor
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