Quotes, August 2006
01. The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
- Marcus Aurelius
02. Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
- John Maxwell
03. Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
- Mark Twain
04. When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
05. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
06. The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
- Robert Heinlein
07. When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
- John W. Gardner
08. Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
- Marcel Marceau
09. Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
- Denis Diderot
10. If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
- Margaret Thatcher
11. Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.
- Charles de Gaulle
12. Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
- Henry Ward Beecher
13. One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
- Bertrand Russel
14. It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
- Robert Hutchins
15. Satire is focused bitterness.
- Leo C. Rosten
16. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
17. I finally understand what pluralism is: it's when lots of people share my point of view.
- Giancarlo Pajetta
18. It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
- Diogenes
19. High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
- Christopher Darlington Morley
20. Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
- Henry Ward Beecher
21. The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
- Tryon Edwards
22. Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
- William Orville Douglas
23. It is with our judgements as our watches: none go just alike, yet each believes his own.
- Alexander Pope
24. Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
- Gustave Flaubert
25. You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
- Joe Moore
26. While there's life, there's hope.
- Terents
27. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
- Denis Diderot
28. Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
- I Ching
29. No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
- Winston Churchill
30. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King Jr
31. The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
- Robert Frost
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