Great minds talk about ideas, mediocre minds talk about events, small minds talk about people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Ennius
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Sometimes it is not enough to our best; we must do what is required."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
Chew on those for a while. I have more.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
20 Mar 2007, 12:06 pm
