February 28, 2009

Quotes 2/28/09

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
Albert Einstein

February 25, 2009

Quotes 2/25/09

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal

February 23, 2009

Quotes 2/23/09

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Steve Pavlina

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

To lead others, embody their ideals!
Leonid S. Sukhorukov

February 19, 2009

Quotes 2/19/09

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Putt's Law

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben

February 17, 2009

Quotes 2/17/09

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
Randy K. Milholland
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Dan McKinnon

February 16, 2009

Quotes 2/16/09

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

February 13, 2009

Quotes 2/13/09

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Lord Herbert

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Ingersoll

February 10, 2009

Quotes 2/10/09

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
James Thurber

February 8, 2009

Quotes 2/8/09

A poem is no place for an idea.
Edgar Watson Howe

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin

February 6, 2009

Quotes 2/6/09

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope

February 5, 2009

Quotes 2/5/09

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates

Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club

Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
Muriel Fox

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

February 4, 2009

Quote 2/4/09

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom.!
Laurie Anderson

February 3, 2009

Quotes 2/3/09

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Jack Handey

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

February 2, 2009

Quotes 2/2/09

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
Emerson Pugh

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
Mickey Rooney

Managers think about today. Leaders think about tomorrow.
Dan McCreary

I think turning off tabbed browsing would make me more productive - 12 tabs open, one is a cats w/lasers video, no idea how I got here..
Kevin Rose

February 1, 2009

Quotes 2/1/09

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins