When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
Paul Saffo
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
Albert Einstein
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
Martin Luther King Jr.
January 31, 2009
January 30, 2009
Quotes 1/30/09
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
H. L. Mencken
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Doctor Who
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
H. L. Mencken
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Doctor Who
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
January 29, 2009
Quotes 1/29/09
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All things have sprung from nothing and are borne forward to infinity. Who can follow out such an astonishing career? The Author of these wonders, and He alone, can comprehend them.
Blaise Pascal
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All things have sprung from nothing and are borne forward to infinity. Who can follow out such an astonishing career? The Author of these wonders, and He alone, can comprehend them.
Blaise Pascal
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold
January 28, 2009
Quotes 1/28/09
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Socrates
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
Scott Adams
Socrates
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
Scott Adams
January 26, 2009
Quotes 1/26/09
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
We can only handle you in doses.
Jacob Waite
John Adams
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
We can only handle you in doses.
Jacob Waite
January 25, 2009
Quotes 1/25/09
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
Samuel Johnson
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
January 23, 2009
Quotes 1/23/09
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
Henry Ford
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
January 22, 2009
Quotes 1/22/09
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Richard Feynman
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Goethe
Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.
Hugh Macleod
Kin Hubbard
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Richard Feynman
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Goethe
Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.
Hugh Macleod
January 21, 2009
January 20, 2009
Quotes 1/20/09
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
Henri Poincare
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
Malcolm Gladwell
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
George S. Patton
Henri Poincare
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
Malcolm Gladwell
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
George S. Patton
January 19, 2009
Quotes 1/19/09
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates (From Plato's Apology)
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.
Ken Rockwell
D.I. [A thrift store], The only place where you wash your hands before and after you go to the bathroom.
Mitch Hawk
Socrates (From Plato's Apology)
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.
Ken Rockwell
D.I. [A thrift store], The only place where you wash your hands before and after you go to the bathroom.
Mitch Hawk
January 18, 2009
Quotes 1/18/09
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys."
Gail Pool
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin Franklin
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
Abraham Lincoln
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
Check out two other worthy blogs
http://tithestomana.blogspot.com
http://holmslice.blogspot.com
Gail Pool
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin Franklin
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
Abraham Lincoln
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
Check out two other worthy blogs
http://tithestomana.blogspot.com
http://holmslice.blogspot.com
January 17, 2009
Quotes 1/17/09
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Gandhi
Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.
Wilhelm Bode
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
Abraham Lincoln
Peter De Vries
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Gandhi
Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.
Wilhelm Bode
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
Abraham Lincoln
January 15, 2009
Quotes 1/15/09
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
Orson Welles
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
January 14, 2009
Quotes 1/14/09
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
Abraham Lincoln
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
guilt - i swear- is a horrible sickness
Jennifer Smulo
Fred Allen
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
Abraham Lincoln
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
guilt - i swear- is a horrible sickness
Jennifer Smulo
January 13, 2009
Quotes 1/13/09
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Jean Paul Getty
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.
Amber Deckers
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
Susan Partnow
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say
Charles Caleb Colton
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrate
Benjamin Franklin
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Jean Paul Getty
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.
Amber Deckers
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
Susan Partnow
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say
Charles Caleb Colton
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrate
January 12, 2009
Quotes 1/12/09
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Buddha
Jack London
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Buddha
January 6, 2009
Quotes 1/6/09
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
January 5, 2009
Quotes 1/5/09
It gives you the impetus to try…you define yourself at age 17 or 18 and it’s with you the rest of your life. You never get over it; I mean I’m still 17 years old in my mind.
Philip Pearlstein
I write a lot. Probably as often as I breathe.
Sasha Wolff
Philip Pearlstein
I write a lot. Probably as often as I breathe.
Sasha Wolff
January 4, 2009
Quotes 1/4/09
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman
Henry Ford
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman
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