Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.
-- Emerson (1803-1882)
But do your own thing, and I shall know you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find
it not.
-- Emerson (1803-1882)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of
themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
A good slogan can stop thought for fifty years.
A great slogan can stop it forever.
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."
-- George Iles
"Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Worlds may freeze and suns may perish, but there stirs something within us now that
can never die again."
-- H. G. Wells
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
-- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716)
What one has, he ought to use and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
-- Cicero
"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
-- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
"What's reality anyway? Nothing but a collective hunch."
-- Jane Wagner
"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and
clothes."
-- Desiderius Erasmus
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the
regulation of conscience."
-- Adam Smith
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-- Anais Nin
"We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have
suffered to another hundred or so."
-- R. W. Dickson
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-- Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
"There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom."
-- Francis Bacon
"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between
men."
-- Epicurus
"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."
-- Winston Churchill
"This is a picture of the British High Command at the beginning of World War I. These
aren't evil men--some of them aren't even stupid."
-- G. Dyer
"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to
correlate all its contents."
-- H.P. Lovecraft
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain
ground."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The only thing that separates us from the animals is superstition and mindless
rituals."
-- Daniel Klein
"The probability is that tomorrow will not be an extrapolation of today."
-- Ernest C. Arbuckle
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure
they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
-- Elizabeth Taylor
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would
be found out."
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay
"The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it."
-- Cecil Woodham Smith
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The words you speak today should be soft and tender...
for tomorrow you may have to eat them." --Unknown
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be
broken."
-- Samuel Johnson
"The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there."
-- Edouard Manet
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not
Going."
-- J. B. Priestley
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always
a clever thing to say."
-- Will Durant.
"People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous
impact on history."
-- J. Danforth Quayle
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is
mere sheep-herding."
-- Ezra Loomis Pound
"Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who
knows he's been trapped, but can't flee."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
-- Frank Herbert, Dune, Manual of MuadDib by Princess Irulan
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, Complete Sherlock Holmes, Valley of Fear
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
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my
faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things
that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
-- Mark Twain
Chaos is King, and Magic is loose in the world.
"If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant
first person, present indicative."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different
world."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts--not the facts
themselves.
-- Cohen's Law
"Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like
men."
-- Adler, Mortimer J.
"What is truth? Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I
would keep to the truth and let God go."
-- Eckhard, Johannes
"You shouldn't think about *how* we're doing this. You should ask yourself,
'why?'"
-- Penn Jillette
"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."
-- Jane Siberry
"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to
have extreme prejudice."
-- Clint Eastwood
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
-- John Galsworthy
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
"I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong,
leave it undone."
-- Bernard Gilpin
"For non-deterministic read 'Inhabited by pixies.'"
-- Anonymous
"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."
-- Abbott Joseph Liebling
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
-- Elbert Green Hubbard
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Go ahead and do it, it is easier to apologize than to get permission."
-- Admiral Grace Hopper
"God created the world out of nothing, but the nothingness still shows through."
-- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
-- Steven Wright
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in
this universe.
-- Carlyle (1795-1881)
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
-- Aldous Huxley
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice.
-- Patrick Buchanan