Quotes. September 2006
01. A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown
02. If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
- Philip Crosby
03. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
04. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford
05. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
- Alan Paton
06. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
- Edward Morgan Forster
07. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.
- Henry David Thoreau
08. Si non caste, tamen caute
[If not chaste, then (at least be) careful]
- Latin proverb
09. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.
- Goethe
10. The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
- Walter Savage Landor
11. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
- Harry S. Truman
12. When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke
13. The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
- Frederick Chiluba
14. It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
- Thomas Jefferson
15. When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
- Adlai Stevenson
16. East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.
- Rudyard Kipling
17. Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
18. There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
- John Ruskin
19. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
- Alexandre Dumas
20. Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.
- Mark Twain
21. Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
22. Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
- Stanislaw Lec
23. There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time".
- Scott Adams
24: Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil’s Dictionary"
25. On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
- H. Allen Smith
26. The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
- Baltasar Gracian
27. It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Charles Stamp
28. In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson
29. The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
- Henry S. Haskins
No quotes September 30 - October 8 due to holiday in Prague.
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