Quotes and Sayings
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.Henry David Thoreau
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.B. F. Skinne
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.Dorothy Parke
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.Napoleon
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.H. L. Mencken
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.- - Aristotle
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.Karl Marx
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, Worthwhile, Personal Goals.Paul Meye
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.Quentin Crisp
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.Albert Camus
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.Theodore Roosevelt
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.Charles William Stubbs
Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.US Supreme Court
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.Frank Lloyd Wright
Anglo - Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.William Jennings Bryan
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.Charles F. Kettering
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.Ben Hecht
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.John von Neumann, on being phoned at 10 a. m.
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.William Hazlitt
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.Ursula K. LeGuin
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - - As long as I keep my senses, at least.Jane Welsh Carlyle
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.Denis Waitley
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.James Truslow Adams
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.Horace Mann
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.Hodding Carte
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
