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Boat load o' quotes (revisited)
A word after a word after a word is power. -Margaret Atwood, poet and
novelist (1939- )
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
-Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -Stephen Crane,
writer (1871-1900)
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese
proverb
He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and
opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. -Thomas Paine, philosopher and
writer (1737-1809)
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this. -Emo Phillips, comedian, actor
(1956- )
Good deeds are the best prayer. -Serbian proverb
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of
hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. -Jorge
Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)
There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth. -Chinese
proverb
One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only the truth.
-Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so
heinous that the public will not forgive it. -Tom Robbins, writer (1936- )
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men
poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men
martyrs or reformers - or both. -Elizabeth Charles, writer (1828-1896
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who
could not hear the music. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher
(1844-1900
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they
communicate with each other. -Marya Mannes, writer (1904-1990
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at
the border. -Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973
That man is truly good who knows his own dark places. -Beowulf
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.
-Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed
in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You
are limited by how you see the world. -Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961-
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from
the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
-Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914) [The Devil's Dictionary]
Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. -Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (1772-1834
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- American historian
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted
wrongly the first time. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and
psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many
regrets. -Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917- )
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and
there is some evidence that they can't read them either. -Gore Vidal (1925-
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you CAN make words mean so many
different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be
master--that's all." -Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [Through the Looking Glass
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963
Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat. -John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to
rule. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. -Jose Narosky, writer
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain, author and
humorist (1835-1910
When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.
-Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [Through the Looking Glass]
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is
most likely a scoundrel. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic
(1880-1956
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved
it. -Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (1601-1658)
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. -Stephen Swid,
executive
If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything. -Fred
Menger, chemistry professor (1937- )
Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality. -John
Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -Thomas
Carlyle, writer (1795-1881
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which
sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will
receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the
miserable life of the pig -- an animal easily as intelligent as a dog --
that becomes the Christmas ham. -Michael Pollan, professor and writer
(1955- )
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. -John Ralston
Saul, writer (1947-
Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will
delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -Mark Twain, author
and humorist (1835-1910)
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. -Phil Zimmermann,
cryptographer (1954-
There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some
reader's hand in the margin are more interesting that the text. The world
is one of these books. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling
yeast. -Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by
heart and his friends can only read the title. -Virginia Woolf, writer
(1882-1941
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. -Frank William
Leahy, football coach (1908-1973
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand
Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. -Turkish
proverb
"What the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending," William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton in 1906
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common
sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George
Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty. -John Adams, 2nd US president
(1735-1826)
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881
A word after a word after a word is power. -Margaret Atwood, poet and
novelist (1939- )
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
-Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -Stephen Crane,
writer (1871-1900)
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese
proverb
He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and
opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. -Thomas Paine, philosopher and
writer (1737-1809)
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this. -Emo Phillips, comedian, actor
(1956- )
Good deeds are the best prayer. -Serbian proverb
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of
hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. -Jorge
Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)
There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth. -Chinese
proverb
One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only the truth.
-Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so
heinous that the public will not forgive it. -Tom Robbins, writer (1936- )
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men
poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men
martyrs or reformers - or both. -Elizabeth Charles, writer (1828-1896
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who
could not hear the music. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher
(1844-1900
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they
communicate with each other. -Marya Mannes, writer (1904-1990
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at
the border. -Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973
That man is truly good who knows his own dark places. -Beowulf
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.
-Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed
in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You
are limited by how you see the world. -Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961-
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from
the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
-Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914) [The Devil's Dictionary]
Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. -Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (1772-1834
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- American historian
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted
wrongly the first time. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and
psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many
regrets. -Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917- )
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and
there is some evidence that they can't read them either. -Gore Vidal (1925-
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you CAN make words mean so many
different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be
master--that's all." -Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [Through the Looking Glass
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963
Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat. -John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to
rule. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. -Jose Narosky, writer
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain, author and
humorist (1835-1910
When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.
-Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [Through the Looking Glass]
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is
most likely a scoundrel. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic
(1880-1956
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved
it. -Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (1601-1658)
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. -Stephen Swid,
executive
If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything. -Fred
Menger, chemistry professor (1937- )
Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality. -John
Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -Thomas
Carlyle, writer (1795-1881
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which
sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will
receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the
miserable life of the pig -- an animal easily as intelligent as a dog --
that becomes the Christmas ham. -Michael Pollan, professor and writer
(1955- )
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. -John Ralston
Saul, writer (1947-
Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will
delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -Mark Twain, author
and humorist (1835-1910)
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. -Phil Zimmermann,
cryptographer (1954-
There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some
reader's hand in the margin are more interesting that the text. The world
is one of these books. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling
yeast. -Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by
heart and his friends can only read the title. -Virginia Woolf, writer
(1882-1941
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. -Frank William
Leahy, football coach (1908-1973
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand
Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. -Turkish
proverb
"What the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending," William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton in 1906
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common
sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George
Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty. -John Adams, 2nd US president
(1735-1826)
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881
