Quotes. October 2006
09. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
10. Misanthropes need people; without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.
- Polly Whitney
11. This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
12. The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born, and doesn't stop until you get up to speak in public.
- Joe Moore
13. We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
- Walter Savage Landor
14. Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
- Niels Bohr
15. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
- John Ruskin
16. Nature abhors a vacuum.
- Benedict Spinoza
17. Don’t walk ahead of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me, and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
18. Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
- Kin Hubbard
19. We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
- Newton M. Minow
20. If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
21. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
-Douglas Adams
22. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
- George Orwell
23. A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russel
24. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
- Alfred Montapert
25. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
- Miguel de Cervantes
26. I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen
27. If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
- William Feather
28. Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash
29. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
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