 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Personally, I like the university... They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college; you don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector.... They expect results!
Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis
Ghostbusters (1984)
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Joseph Stalin
Denouncing masculine oppression, Women's Lib screams protests against the policy of regarding women as "sex objects"—through speakers who, too obviously, are in no such danger.
Ayn Rand
Man's eminence is to be seen in the fact that he chooses between alternatives. He regulates his behavior deliberately. He can master his impulses and desires; he has the power to suppress wishes, the satisfaction of which would force him to renounce the attainment of more important goals. In short: man acts; he purposively aims at ends chosen. This is what we have in mind in stating that man is a moral person, responsible for his conduct.
Ludwig von Mises
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I guess I missed the memo from the international coalition rushing aid to our citizens devastated by hurricanes in our southern American states, a region that still suffers from widespread unemployment, homelessness and governmental neglect. I guess I missed the memo from the international coalition rushing to aid to my friends in Southern California after the devastating floods there, continuing as I write.
Mark Holden
The Columbia Flyer
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
The second-hander acts, but the source of his actions is scattered in every other living person. It’s everywhere and nowhere and you can’t reason with him. He’s not open to reason. You can’t speak to him—he can’t hear. You’re tried by an empty bench.
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
"Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other."
Garet Garrett
Being all on fire is not just being emphatic and deliberately passionate, it is not just being extremely principled, it is going out and actively molding the world to one's principles.
Jeff Landauer
"All On Fire"
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
John Winston Ono Lennon
John Lennon, Beautiful Boy
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Be sure you're right, then go ahead.
David Crockett, Congressman 1827-35
... we have to abridge individual rights, change the societal conditions, and act in ways that heretofore were not in accordance with our values and traditions, like giving a police officer or security official the right to search you without a judicial finding of probable cause.
General Patrick M. Hughes
Congressional Quarterly, Oct. 27, 2004
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders. Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one’s need to think.
Adolf Eichmann
Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (286)
So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston Churchill
Speech, November 12, 1936
I was sitting outside the -- the classroom, waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower of a -- of a -- you know, the TV was obviously on, and I -- I used to fly myself, and I said, "Well, there's one terrible pilot."
President George W. Bush
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/liar.htm
Every man should use the intellect...as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the sea may see the shining, and learn their way.
Henry Ward Beecher
You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
IV.4.5
Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil
Aeneid
I'm afraid I place a certain value on my life, which prevents my being wholeheartedly concerned with the fate of the world."
Odkin
Wallace Wood, The Wizard King Trilogy, Book One: The King of the World
You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.
Elbert Hubbard
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
[T]he Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind. They can say what they want to say...[T]hey shouldn't have their feelings hurt just because some people don't want to buy their records when they speak out...[F]reedom is a two-way street...I...don't really care what the Dixie Chicks said. I want to do what I think is right for the American people, and if some singers or Hollywood stars feel like speaking out, that's fine. That's the great thing about America. It stands in stark contrast to Iraq...
President George W. Bush
Wikipedia quote of a President Bush interview with Tom Brokaw April 24th 2003 following uproar over anti Iraq war comments by Dixie Chicks band member Natalie Maines
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
[Events like the recent tsunami] mock the notion that human beings should live in harmony with nature. When did nature ever live in harmony with us? The natural world can be wondrous in its beauty and mystery, but it is not our friend. It is a pervasive, relentless threat to our mere existence, and often, that threat is carried out. The story of civilization is the story of humanity's progress in subduing, exploiting, and overcoming nature for the benefit of ordinary people.
Steve Chapman
Chicago Tribune 12/30/04 (via Dr. Hurd.com)
I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power.. Green Lantern's light!
Green Lantern
1943, credited to Alfred Bester
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Aristotle
Religion is a smile on a dog.
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
"What I Am"
“The Tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one cannot use to make life richer or easier or happier.”
Kay Nolte Smith
Women Without Superstitions: No Gods, No Masters
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
Christmas is a time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Bart Simpson
Prostitution is the abortion of romance.
Newberry
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Rosalind Russell
as Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
Thomas Jefferson
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Liberty is the Mother, not the Daughter, of Order.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
"I was born modest, but it wore off."
Mark Twain
Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight" show
There should be no subject about which you cannot make jokes.
Rowan Aktinkson
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Hey, I got a question for you. Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?
Homer Simpson
"The Simpsons"
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