Quotes; Summer 2010

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

- Willem de Kooning

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

- Judith Martin

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

- Groucho Marx

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

- Dr. Seuss

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

- Jef Mallett

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

- Jeffery F. Chamberlain

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough

- Mario Andretti

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.

- Robert Heinlein

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

- Friedrich Engels

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

- George Eliot

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

- W. C. Fields

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

- Charles Austin Beard

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

- Ambrose Bierce

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

- Carl Sandburg

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

- Gail Godwin

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

- William Wrigley Jr.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

- Mo Udall

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

- Galileo Galilei

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

- Artemus Ward

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.”
- Josiah Gilbert

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross
word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

- Alan Patrick Herbert

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg