--- - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge info: English critic & poet (1772 - 1834) quote: No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen Smoliar info: "" quote: Music is sound's cognitive apologist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erin Cleary info: "" quote: I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Thomas Browne info: " (1605 - 1682)" quote: Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Brinkley info: US television newscaster (1920 - 2003) quote: Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: 1946English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Billy Connolly on ABC's "Head Of the Class" info: "" quote: Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Madison info: (attributed)4th president of US (1751 - 1836) quote: We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alain van der Heide info: "" quote: Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P.J. O'Rourke info: "" quote: People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Baldrick - Sense and Senility info: "" quote: I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ed Moran info: Covina, California quote: "CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning \"heat\" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for \"sexual intercourse\" or \"fornication.\" Hence: Tierra de California, \"the land of hot sex.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franz Xavier Kroetz info: "" quote: Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Annie Dillard info: _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_ quote: There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig Wittgenstein via Anatol Holt info: "" quote: If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gustave Flaubert info: "\"Madame Bovary\", ch. 12French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)" quote: "...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Fulghum info: US author & Unitarian clergyman (1937 - ) quote: Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winnie the Pooh info: "" quote: For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. K. Kitselman info: "" quote: The words `I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hagar the Horrible info: "" quote: "O words of love, O words divine! The silver thought, the golden line! Of all men's words, there's none so fine, As these three words: 'I've got mine!'" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nicholas Negroponte info: Director of the MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human-computer interaction quote: "\"Where did you put it?\" \"Put what?\" \"You know?\" \"Where do you think?\" \"Oh.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Arthur Eddington info: English astronomer (1882 - 1944) quote: We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Carroll info: English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898) quote: "\"When I use a word,\" Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. \"It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less.\" \"The question is,\" said Alice, \"whether you can make words mean so many different things.\" \"The question is,\" said Humpty Dumpty, \"which is to be master - that's all.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elie Weisel info: From the Kingdom of Memory quote: "Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: "I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. info: US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965) quote: Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: I think I am a verb. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tommy Lasorda info: on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela quote: All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Adam Smith info: "" quote: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mikhail Gorbachev info: June 8, 1990 quote: The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: said in 1885English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Gompers info: said in 1908 quote: The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Letterman info: US comedian & television host (1947 - ) quote: Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason info: "" quote: I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Maynard Keynes info: English economist (1883 - 1946) quote: Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shirley Temple info: US actress, dancer, & diplomat (1928 - ) quote: I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mahatma Gandhi info: Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948) quote: A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The invoice for retouching the cover photo of Michelle Pfeiffer info: in the December 1990, issue of Esquire magazine, obtained by Harper's. The photo's caption reads, "What Michelle Pfeiffer Needs...Is Absolutely Nothing." quote: "...Clean up complexion, soften eye lines, soften smile line, add color to lips, trim chin, remove neck lines, soften line under ear lobe, add highlights to earrings, add blush to cheek, clean up neck line, remove stray hair, remove hair strands from dress, adjust color and add hair on top of head, add dress on side to create better line... Total: $1,525.00." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Milton info: English poet (1608 - 1674) quote: Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Tolstoy info: Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910) quote: I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: O.G. Sutton info: "" quote: A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harry S Truman info: 33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) quote: I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuq Von Rospach info: "" quote: The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies info: "" quote: As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blair Houghton info: "" quote: "\"I must've seen it in a USENET posting\"; that's sort of like hearsay evidence from Richard Nixon." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: unattributed truth from r.g.frp info: "" quote: It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Leeper info: "" quote: Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: from the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson info: "" quote: "network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev info: quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1 quote: There is nothing more practical than a good theory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: M. C. Escher info: Dutch artist (1898 - 1972) quote: He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: von Weizsacker info: "" quote: Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Hamilton info: "" quote: "'Virtual Reality' is a name being slapped on almost anything these days, especially if it's lame." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: "\"Ceasar and Cleopatra\"Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)" quote: "Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brother Theodore info: "" quote: It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Adams info: _Watership Down_ quote: A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John R. Searle info: MINDS, BRAINS AND SCIENCE, p 44 quote: Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: 55 BCRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Feynman info: US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988) quote: The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H.H. Munro (Saki) info: "" quote: He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Berke Breathed info: Bloom County Babylon quote: Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josephine Hart - "Sin" info: "" quote: We bury with many different emotions. Rarely with intimations of mortality. 'Buried' is the ultimate separation of them and us. As other's lives are often only dreams to us, so also others' deaths. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ovid info: MetamorphosesRoman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) quote: Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Gaiman info: "The Sandman #20: Facade" quote: "Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes, in hospitals and forests and abattoirs. For some folks death is a release and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Slovotsky info: _The Warrior Lives_ by Joel Rosenberg quote: When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming. I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: "We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josephine Hart info: "\"Sin\"" quote: We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cary Grant info: US movie actor (1904 - 1986) quote: My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald) info: "" quote: You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and LineAnd "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never deep in anything but - Wine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Two sodium atoms are walking along the street when one stops and says, "Oh my God, I think I've lost an electron!" "Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom. "Yes," replies the first sodium atom, "I'm positive." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Abraham info: "" quote: My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert Westren Turnbull info: "" quote: Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hermann Weyl info: "" quote: You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Rogers info: Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory quote: "The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John W.N. Sullivan info: "" quote: ...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Joseph Sylvester info: "" quote: The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clifford Truesdell info: "" quote: How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gregory Benford - Timescape info: "" quote: There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Javan info: "" quote: What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: anonymous info: "" quote: Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: anonymous info: "" quote: Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience?" info: "" quote: Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab:" info: "" quote: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. info: "" quote: Oliver's Law rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Naiman info: "" quote: "Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W.S. Gilbert info: "" quote: Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hunter S. Thompson info: US journalist (1939 - 2005) quote: A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William F. Buckley Jr. - in response to previous statement info: "" quote: Though one should be prepared to vomit rather frequently and disport with pink elephants and assorted grotesqueries while trying often unsuccessfully to make one's way to the toilet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hanna Gray info: current president of the University of Chicago quote: Knowledge is expensive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Education is the best provision for old age. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Harlan Ellison. info: "" quote: The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sinclair Lewis info: US novelist (1885 - 1951) quote: Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: French novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Kasner and James R. Newman info: "" quote: It's only by amusing oneself that one can learn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arnold Edinborough info: "" quote: Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail info: "" quote: If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: PJ O'Rourke info: "" quote: Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: "\"Eric\"" quote: Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, 'Where's my clean socks?' no-one answers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Felix and Oscar info: from the Odd Couple quote: "\"A penny for your thoughts?\" \"A dollar for your death.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Stoppard info: British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - ) quote: Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Stoppard info: "\"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead\"British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )" quote: "Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John C. Straffin info: "" quote: Rather, she [Death] simply is the Ultimate Hostess who tells you when your table's ready. It's up to other powers what section you're seated in (smoking or non-smoking). rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph Stalin info: Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953) quote: A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: United Nations report info: "1980" quote: Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rush Limbaugh info: "" quote: I love the women's movement...especially when I'm walking behind it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gloria Steinem info: US feminist (1934 - ) quote: If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Incoming Missouri Congressman James Talent info: responding to the question "Are you a dog or a cat person?" quote: Basically a dog person. I certainly, though, wouldn't want to offend my constituents who are cat people, and I should say that being, I hope, a sensitive person, that I have nothing against cats, and had cats when I was a boy, and if we didn't have the two dogs might very well be interested in having a cat now. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Reich info: the Secretary of Labor quote: In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sonjay Anand info: "" quote: The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rule 46 info: Oxford Union Society, London quote: Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles M. Schulz info: (Snoopy)US cartoonist (1922 - 2000) quote: Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robertson Davies info: "" quote: Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Murray Edelman info: _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1 quote: Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: _Congressional Government_, p. 10928th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John L. Jackley info: New York Times, 10/29/90, p. A15. quote: Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home.... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Yes, Prime Minister info: (British TV program) quote: He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Wallace info: "" quote: I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronald Reagan info: "to Stuart Spencer, 1966 from \"There He Goes Again: Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error\" by Mark Green and Gail MacColl40th president of US (1911 - 2004)" quote: Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas R. Hofstadter info: "\"Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid\"" quote: "Tortoise: But we must be careful in combining sentences. For instance, you'd grant that \"Politicians lie\" is true, wouldn't you? Achilles: Who could deny it? Tortoise: Good. Likewise, \"Cast-iron sinks\" is a valid utterance, isn't it? Achilles: Indubitably. Tortoise: Then, putting them together, we get \"Politicians lie in cast-iron sinks\" ..." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Mankiewicz info: "" quote: "A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word \"but\" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: \"I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... \" (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bernard Avishai info: "" quote: The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Sterling info: "" quote: In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nathaniel Borenstein info: US programmer (1957 - ) quote: The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: US columnist & humorist (1947 - ) quote: "And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jon Bentley info: More Programming Pearls quote: An old puzzle asks how a barometer can be used to measure the height of a building. Answers range from dropping the instrument from the top and measuring the time of its fall to giving it to the building's superintendent in return for a look at the plans. A modern version of the puzzle asks how a personal computer can balance a checkbook. An elegant solution is to sell the machine and deposit the money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Galloway info: "" quote: It's a well known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occured in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians' process with a control-sea..." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Rooney info: US news commentator (1919 - ) quote: 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. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert X. Cringely info: InfoWorld quote: If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Professor Edsger Dijkstra info: "" quote: It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Professor Edsger Dijkstra info: "" quote: PL1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Professor Edsger Dijkstra info: "" quote: Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Bulko info: "" quote: "Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert L. Kruse info: Data Structures and Program Design quote: An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Perlis info: "" quote: You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Perlis info: "" quote: It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kulawiec info: "" quote: Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Popular Mechanics info: March 1949 quote: Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 12 tons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. Hopper info: "" quote: In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. Hopper info: "" quote: Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bradley's Bromide info: "" quote: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roger King info: "" quote: I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Magary info: "" quote: Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Raskin info: interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal quote: Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Porterfield info: "" quote: The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Meyer info: "" quote: "pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Livius info: Roman author & historian (59 BC - 17 AD) quote: War is just to those to whom war is necessary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight David Eisenhower info: address at Guildhall, London, 7/12/45 quote: Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems info: "" quote: Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stan Openshaw - Doomsday info: "" quote: Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . . rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Nation info: May 10, 1993, pg. 641. quote: Still other respected writes, such as Rufus Miles Jr. and Stanford Univerity's Barton Bernstein, have effectively refuted Truman's oft-repeated argument about the number of American lives saved by the bomb. Citing the most recently de-classified materials, Bernstein could not find a worst-case prediction of lives lost higher than 46,000-even if an invasion had been mounted, which, as noted, was deemed highly unlikely by July 1945. Most estimates went no higher than 20,000 combat deaths. "The myth of the 500,000 American lives saved", Bernstein concludes, "thus seems to have no bases in fact." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny The Elder info: Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) quote: "To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flock and gather together, and ready to make head and stand against all others of a contrary kind: the lions as fell and savage as they be, fight not with one another: serpents sting not serpents, nor bite one another with their venomous teeth: nay the very monsters and huge fishes of the sea, war not amongst themselves in their own kind: but believe me, man at man's hand receiveth most harm and mischief." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin P. Adams info: US journalist (1881 - 1960) quote: To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act IIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Don Marquis info: US humorist (1878 - 1937) quote: The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gracie Allen info: US actress (1906 - 1964) quote: When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Judith Martin info: (Miss Manners) quote: We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Watterson info: Calvin and HobbesUS cartoonist (1958 - ) quote: People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emo Phillips info: "US comedian " quote: I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johnny Carson info: US comedian & television host (1925 - 2005) quote: I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Rudner info: "US comedian " quote: When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Orben info: "" quote: I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cathy Ladman info: "" quote: My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo J. Burke info: "" quote: People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John J. Plomp info: "" quote: You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gore Vidal info: US author & dramatist (1925 - ) quote: Never have children, only grandchildren. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mae West info: US movie actress (1892 - 1980) quote: You're never too old to become younger. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Pritchard info: "" quote: You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ellen DeGeneres info: "US comedian and actress " quote: My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Barton info: "" quote: When you're through changing, you're through. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Noel Coward info: English actor, dramatist, & songwriter (1899 - 1973) quote: I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herbert Rappaport info: "" quote: I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emo Phillips info: "US comedian " quote: Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Goldwyn info: US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 - 1974) quote: You've got to take the bitter with the sour. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Lyon info: "" quote: If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barry Switzer info: US football coach (1937 - ) quote: Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act IIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eleanor Roosevelt info: US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) quote: I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John W. Gardner info: US administrator (1912 - 2002) quote: We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred North Whitehead info: English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) quote: We think in generalities, but we live in detail. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thornton Wilder info: US dramatist & novelist (1897 - 1975) quote: Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William James info: US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) quote: The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Goldman info: "\"The Princess Bride\"" quote: Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Don Delillo info: "" quote: We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Pritchard info: "" quote: No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Rudner info: "US comedian " quote: I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G. K. Chesterton info: English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) quote: Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katherine Cebrian info: "" quote: I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cyra McFadden info: "" quote: I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herb Caen info: "" quote: Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: A. Whitney Brown info: "" quote: I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Orson Welles info: US actor & director (1915 - 1985) quote: Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles M. Schulz info: US cartoonist (1922 - 2000) quote: My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Frost info: US poet (1874 - 1963) quote: Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Russell info: British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) quote: There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act IIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) quote: Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William G. McAdoo info: US industrialist, lawyer, & politician (1863 - 1941) quote: It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Eisenhower info: 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969) quote: An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norman Ford info: "" quote: Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. Mumford Jones info: US critic & educator (1892 - 1980) quote: Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ted Turner info: "" quote: If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan info: Irish dramatist & politician (1751 - 1816) quote: He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marty Indik info: "" quote: Confusion is always the most honest response. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Kissinger info: US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - ) quote: The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Allan Goldfein info: "" quote: Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pat Conroy info: US novelist (1945 - ) quote: I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Diogenes the Cynic info: " (412 BC - 323 BC)" quote: Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Kenneth Galbraith info: US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - 2006) quote: It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. E. Martz info: "" quote: He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Buckminster Fuller info: US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) quote: Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Stoppard info: British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - ) quote: The days of the digital watch are numbered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: (attributed)US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter De Vries info: "" quote: The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmond de Goncourt info: French artist & novelist (1822 - 1896) quote: A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Critic as Artist, 1891Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andre Maurois info: French author (1885 - 1967) quote: In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Guedalla info: English author & popular historian (1889 - 1944) quote: Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Victor Borge info: US (Danish-born) comedian & pianist (1909 - 2000) quote: I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alfred Hitchcock info: In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)British movie director (1899 - 1980) quote: The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Corenk info: "" quote: Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marvin Minsky info: "" quote: Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter De Vries info: "" quote: My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Al Boliska info: "" quote: Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hodding Carter info: "" quote: Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Louis Vermeil info: "" quote: The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Asimov info: US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) quote: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Orben info: "" quote: To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Barry info: US columnist & humorist (1947 - ) quote: Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin D. Roosevelt info: in a letter to Winston Churchill32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) quote: It is fun to be in the same decade with you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dorothy Parker info: speaking of Katharine HepburnUS author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) quote: She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. H. Auden info: US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973) quote: We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Benchley info: US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945) quote: I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dana Carvey info: US actor & comedian (1955 - ) quote: I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mickey Friedman info: "" quote: Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward R. Murrow info: US broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965) quote: Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Beryl Pfizer info: "" quote: I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Canterville Ghost, 1882Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Mull info: US comedian and actor (1943 - ) quote: The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marilyn Monroe info: US actress (1926 - 1962) quote: Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heinrich Heine info: German critic & poet (1797 - 1856) quote: The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lewis Carroll info: Alice in WonderlandEnglish author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898) quote: Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: misquoting Sir Walter ScottUS educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Sowell info: " (1930 - )" quote: There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. C. Fields info: US actor (1880 - 1946) quote: Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fran Lebowitz info: US writer and humorist (1950 - ) quote: I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vic Gold info: "" quote: The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act IIIIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Spike Milligan info: "" quote: Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Doug Larson info: "" quote: What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Willie Tyler info: "" quote: The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carl Reiner info: "" quote: A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Doug Larson info: "" quote: If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John F. Kennedy info: 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) quote: When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ciardi info: US poet (1916 - 1986) quote: The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Levant info: " (1906 - 1972)" quote: I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woody Allen info: US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) quote: The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: W. C. Fields info: US actor (1880 - 1946) quote: I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russell P. Askue info: "" quote: If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Stoppard info: Jumpers (1972) act 1British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - ) quote: It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lenny Bruce info: " (1923 - 1966)" quote: Communism is like one big phone company. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lillian Hellman info: US dramatist (1905 - 1984) quote: Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. info: US jurist (1841 - 1935) quote: Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ronnie Shakes info: "" quote: My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Lewis info: "" quote: I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert W. Sarnoff info: "" quote: Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: "Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Wilson Mizner info: US screenwriter (1876 - 1933) quote: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Twain info: US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) quote: I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: College isn't the place to go for ideas. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: L. L. Henderson info: "" quote: Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Drucker info: American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) quote: So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Calvin Coolidge info: 30th president of US (1872 - 1933) quote: No man ever listened himself out of a job. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andy Rooney info: US news commentator (1919 - ) quote: Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Johnson info: (attributed)English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) quote: 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. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Novak info: "" quote: Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Rosten info: US (Polish-born) author (1908 - ) quote: The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Inigo DeLeon info: "" quote: The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Disraeli info: British politician (1804 - 1881) quote: The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin H. Brewster info: US lawyer (1816 - 1888) quote: A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ray Bradbury info: advice to writersUS science fiction author (1920 - ) quote: You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Picasso info: Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) quote: There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quentin Crisp info: "" quote: Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: US humorist & political commentator (1947 - ) quote: Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: Criticism is prejudice made plausible. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. V. R. Thompson info: "" quote: Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter De Vries info: "" quote: Life is a zoo in a jungle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Jean Nathan info: US drama critic & editor (1882 - 1958) quote: Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Drucker info: American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) quote: In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Santayana info: US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) quote: To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norman Douglas info: "" quote: Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: "Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Stuart Mill info: English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873) quote: If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jilly Cooper info: "" quote: The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ciardi info: US poet (1916 - 1986) quote: You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Schopenhauer info: German philosopher (1788 - 1860) quote: If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark B. Cohen info: "" quote: Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Groucho Marx info: US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) quote: Women should be obscene and not heard. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Will Rogers info: US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) quote: There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Voltaire info: French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) quote: The multitude of books is making us ignorant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Allen info: US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) quote: You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Updike info: Assorted Prose (1965)US author (1932 - ) quote: A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eugene McCarthy info: US politician (1916 - 2005) quote: It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Camus info: French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) quote: There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: US editor (1880 - 1956) quote: To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambrose Bierce info: The Devil's DictionaryUS author & satirist (1842 - 1914) quote: Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rita Rudner info: "US comedian " quote: Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: 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. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Katharine Hepburn info: US actress (1907 - 2003) quote: Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fran Lebowitz info: US writer and humorist (1950 - ) quote: Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Clive James info: "" quote: Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Corenk info: "" quote: Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: They Don't Care About Us quote: Am I invisible because you ignore me? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: They Don't Care About Us quote: "Don\x92t you \x91black or white\x92 me." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: They Don't Care About Us quote: Beat me, hate me, you can never break me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson info: Scream quote: "You keep changin\x92 the rules and I can\x92t play the game. I can\x92t take it much longer. I think I might go insane." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: Man In The Mirror quote: If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Lennon info: ImagineEnglish singer & songwriter (1940 - 1980) quote: "Imagine there\x92s no countries, it isn\x92t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: In Our Small Way quote: Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world in one day, but we still can change some things today, in our small way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: TLC info: Waterfalls quote: "Don\x92t go chasin\x92 waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you\x92re used to." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jamiroquai info: Virtual Insanity quote: We can always take but never give. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jamiroquai info: Virtual Insanity quote: "It\x92s a wonder man can eat at all, when things are big that should be small." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: 2Bad quote: "Look who\x92s standing if you please, \x91though you tried to bring me to my knees." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: "" quote: Prejudice is ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Helen Keller info: US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) quote: The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: Leave Me Alone quote: "Ain\x92t no mountain that I can\x92t climb, baby" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt info: "" quote: Above all, try something. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dolly Parton info: "" quote: If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shirley MacLaine info: US movie actress (1934 - ) quote: Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ruth Ann Schabaker info: "" quote: Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stone Temple Pilots info: "" quote: If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Winnie the Pooh info: "" quote: If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cindy Adams info: "" quote: Success has made failures of many men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne O'Hare McCormick info: "" quote: Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Pagels info: A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year! quote: Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Muhammad Ali info: US boxer (1942 - ) quote: The man who has no imagination has no wings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Jackson info: "" quote: "We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless\x85We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action\x85No action." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Janet Jackson info: "" quote: Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kahlil Gibron info: (book) The Profit quote: For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. Lee Hopkin info: "" quote: Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Coolio featuring L.V. info: Gangsta's Paradise quote: "I can\x92t live a normal life. I was raised by the state." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stanislaw Lec info: "" quote: He who limps still walks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emily Dickinson info: US poet (1830 - 1886) quote: The mere sense of living is joy enough. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Fuller info: English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661) quote: A good garden may have some weeds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jacob A. Riis info: "" quote: Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick E. Crane info: "" quote: To make a man happy, fill his hands with work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Lipson info: "" quote: You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Raymond Lindquist info: "" quote: Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: No one knows what he can do until he tries. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Imagination is more important than knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: 2Pac info: Changes quote: It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Giacomo Leopardi info: "" quote: People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: En Vogue info: Free Your Mind quote: "Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don\x92t be so shallow." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karen Horney info: "" quote: Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe info: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) quote: Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: German proverb info: "" quote: "'But' is a fence over which few leap." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: It is never too late to give up your prejudices. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Diane Ravitch info: "" quote: The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Whitney Houston info: The Greatest Love Of All quote: "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone\x92s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I\x92ll live as I believe." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kandice Hehner info: Innocent Eyes quote: As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William James info: US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) quote: If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Coolio info: The Winner quote: You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph F. Jerome info: "" quote: Thank God I didn't get what I deserve. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Bach info: "" quote: Do what you think and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Carlin info: US comedian and actor (1937 - ) quote: Life.....is a series of dogs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Steinbeck info: The Grapes of WrathUS novelist (1902 - 1968) quote: In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pat Conroy info: Beach MusicUS novelist (1945 - ) quote: Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miyamoto Musashi info: "" quote: Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miyamoto Musashi info: "" quote: I must say, to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emily Taft Douglas info: "" quote: If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maya Angelou info: US author & poet (1928 - ) quote: Courage is fear that has said its prayers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Don Feder info: Boston Herald, 3/30/98 quote: The problem isn't easy access to guns, but easy access to oxygen. Certain people shouldn't be breathing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mary McCarthy info: "" quote: We are the hero of our own story. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Doris Lessing info: "" quote: Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Janis Joplin info: US singer (1943 - 1970) quote: Don't compromise yourself, you are all you've got. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell info: when asked at the Gartner Group IT Symposium in orlando, Fla., what he's do if he were in CEO Steve Jobs' position at Apple Computer quote: I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Erma Bombeck info: on her tombstoneUS author & humorist (1927 - 1996) quote: I told you I was sick. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edmund Burke info: Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) quote: Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ward Beecher info: US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) quote: I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Jean Nathan info: US drama critic & editor (1882 - 1958) quote: Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Sedgwick info: "" quote: We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Chapin info: "" quote: To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Comenius info: "" quote: To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles M. Schulz info: US cartoonist (1922 - 2000) quote: Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jonathan Kellerman info: "" quote: Government is like Junior High. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martha Beck info: "" quote: "Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy\x85" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Philip Gulley info: "" quote: Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abraham Lincoln info: 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) quote: Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Garvey info: "" quote: If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mother Teresa info: Indian (Albanian-born) humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997) quote: What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martha Graham info: US choreographer & dancer (1894 - 1991) quote: Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dolly Parton info: "" quote: If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Scott Ringenbach info: "" quote: Imagination is the reality of the dreamer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bette Midler info: US actress, comedienne, & singer (1945 - ) quote: I say 'girl' because I love to annoy people. I love the word 'girl'. 'Gal' is pretty great, too. I don't just want to be called a woman. It sounds like someone with a mustache. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Etta James info: "" quote: I've had people say to me, 'Can't you be more feminine?' I would go, 'Feminine? Why do I have to be feminine?' Does that mean I have to put a little apron on and bake some cookies or something? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jamie Ann Hunt info: "" quote: My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: PygmalionIrish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: If you can't appreciate what you've got, then you had better get what you can appreciate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Miguel De Cervantes info: Don Quixote de la ManchaSpanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616) quote: When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Bernard Shaw info: Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) quote: If you leave the smallest corner of your mind open for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laurence J. Peter info: Peter's Quotations, by Laurence J. Peter, 1977US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) quote: A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benjamin Franklin info: ?US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) quote: To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Shakespeare info: Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) quote: Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Szasz info: "" quote: Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Butler info: 1835-1902English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) quote: The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Margaret Mead info: US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978) quote: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Konrad Adenauer info: 1876-1967 quote: First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Luther Burbank info: 1849-1926 quote: Those who don't like thinking should at least rearrange their prejudices from time to time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Johann Nestroy info: 1801-1862 quote: You can't legislate against rumor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: 1934US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Washington Carver info: US horticulturist (1864 - 1943) quote: "I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God\x92s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Constantin Brancusi info: "" quote: Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: CIA Manual info: "" quote: A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Albert Einstein info: 1879-1955US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) quote: Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rick Polito info: Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz" quote: Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mahatma Gandhi info: Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948) quote: "There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "V\xE1lcav Havel" info: parade, Times Picayune quote: Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions43rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: G.K. Chesterton info: Lone quote at the beginning of the Father Brown Mysteries Series of books. quote: There is at the back of every artist's mind, a pattern or type of Architecture. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas De Quincey info: "" quote: If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marrion Zimmer Bradley info: "" quote: Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Hunter info: Scarlet Bergonias (The Grateful Dead) quote: Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Texas democrat Sam Rayburn (Mr. Sam), Speaker of the House, circa 1950 info: John Hazlehurst, CO Springs Independent (http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2000-09-21/outsider.html) quote: "[To a first-term congressman who wanted wanted excused from voting with the party to satisfy his biggest contributors:] Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carlos Santana info: Television program--aired on VH1, september 2000 quote: There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernest Hemingway info: in his Nobel Prize acceptance speechUS author & journalist (1899 - 1961) quote: For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. 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This may be the only evidence we have of God\x92s existence." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve Aylett info: Toxicology (a book, 1999) quote: The truth is easiest to disprove - its defenses are down. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Pratchett info: Discworld quote: Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Ashe info: "" quote: Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Matt Damon info: in the film "Good Will Hunting" quote: Bad times wake us up to the good times we weren't paying attention to. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kin Hubbard info: " (1868 - 1930)" quote: When someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing', it's the money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sidney J. Harris info: "" quote: The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Homolka info: "" quote: To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Eliot info: 1819-1880English novelist (1819 - 1880) quote: It is never too late to become what we might have been. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Ruskin info: 1819-1900English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900) quote: The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC info: Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p.8 quote: Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: French writer (1900 - 1944) quote: Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Liberace info: US pianist (1919 - 1987) quote: When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rebecca West info: Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983) quote: I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Scottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pauline Kael info: "" quote: The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Dooling info: National Law Journal page A5 7/5/99 quote: Criminal court is where bad pople are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges In family court, where good people are at their worst. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: M. Kathleen Casey info: "" quote: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epictetus info: Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) quote: Only the educated are free. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kimberly Keen info: "" quote: Federalism is federalism...and that's all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nedra Carroll info: "" quote: If you have a fallback plan, you will fall back. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Galsworthy info: "" quote: If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Russell Baker info: US columnist & journalist (1925 - ) quote: Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: US humorist & political commentator (1947 - ) quote: Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Dewey info: US educator, Pragmatist philosopher, & psychologist (1859 - 1952) quote: Education is life itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Shneur Zalman info: "" quote: Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Hope info: US (English-born) actor & comedian (1903 - 2003) quote: People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: A companion's words of persuasion are effective. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The single best augury is to fight for one's country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The fates have given mankind a patient soul. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The IliadGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: "Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: By their own follies they perished, the fools. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: "For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: All men have need of the gods. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: A small rock holds back a great wave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Homer info: The OdysseyGreek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) quote: "Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hesiod info: Greek didactic poet (~800 BC) quote: Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hesiod info: Greek didactic poet (~800 BC) quote: He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hesiod info: Greek didactic poet (~800 BC) quote: A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hesiod info: Greek didactic poet (~800 BC) quote: Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hesiod info: Greek didactic poet (~800 BC) quote: The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hesiod info: Greek didactic poet (~800 BC) quote: Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thales info: (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher & scientist (635 BC - 543 BC) quote: Know thyself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Seven Sages info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (650 BC - 550 BC) quote: Do not speak ill of the dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Simonides info: from Plato, Dialogues, ProtagorasGreek poet (556 BC - 468 BC) quote: Not even the gods fight against necessity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pittacus info: (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers quote: Know the right moment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: To be worn out is to be renewed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: When the highest type of men hear Tao,They diligently practice it.When the average type of men hear Tao,They half believe in it.When the lowest type of men hear Tao,They laugh heartily at it.Without the laugh, there is no Tao. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: He who knows does not speak.He who speaks does not know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-tzu info: The Way of Lao-tzuChinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pythagoras info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek mathematician, philosopher, & scientist (582 BC - 507 BC) quote: Reason is immortal, all else mortal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Appearances often are deceiving. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Milkmaid and Her PailGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Fox and the GrapesGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: I am sure the grapes are sour. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Hare and the TortoiseGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Slow and steady wins the race. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Fox and the LionGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Familiarity breed contempt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Town Mouse and the Country MouseGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Jay and the PeacockGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Frog and the OxGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Dog in the MangerGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Ant and the GrasshopperGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Juno and the PeacockGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Wolf and the LambGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Any excuse will serve a tyrant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Dog and the ShadowGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Man and the SatyrGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Goose with the Golden EggsGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Hercules and the WagonerGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Put your shoulder to the wheel. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: Hercules and the WagonerGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: The gods help them that help themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Old Man and DeathGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Bundle of SticksGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: Union gives strength. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Lion, the Fox, and the BeastsGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aesop info: The Eagle and the ArrowGreek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) quote: The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Have no friends not equal to yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: "[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The cautious seldom err. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Confucius info: The Confucian AnalectsChinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) quote: Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: All is flux, nothing stays still. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: Nothing endures but change. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: On the UniverseGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: Nature is wont to hide herself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: On the UniverseGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: Much learning does not teach understanding. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: On the UniverseGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: On the UniverseGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: The road up and the road down is one and the same. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: On the UniverseGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heraclitus info: On the UniverseGreek philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) quote: A man's character is his fate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Themistocles info: from Plutarch, LivesGreek general & politician in Athens (527 BC - 460 BC) quote: I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Themistocles info: from Plutarch, LivesGreek general & politician in Athens (527 BC - 460 BC) quote: I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: Prometheus BoundGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: Prometheus BoundGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: Prometheus BoundGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: Time as he grows old teaches all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: AgamemnonGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: AgamemnonGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: AgamemnonGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: AgamemnonGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: The Libation BearersGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aeschylus info: The Seven Against ThebesGreek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC) quote: His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pindar info: Nemean OdesGreek lyric poet (522 BC - 443 BC) quote: Words have a longer life than deeds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anaxagoras info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek astronomer & philosopher (500 BC - 428 BC) quote: The descent to Hades is the same from every place. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pericles info: from Plutarch, LivesGreek politician in Athens (490 BC - 429 BC) quote: Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pericles info: from Plutarch, LivesGreek politician in Athens (490 BC - 429 BC) quote: Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AjaxGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AjaxGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AjaxGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: Oedipus RexGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: How dreadful knowledge of the truth can beWhen there's no help in truth! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: Oedipus RexGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: Oedipus RexGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Time eases all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: For God hates utterlyThe bray of bragging tongues. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: "Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Numberless are the world's wonders, but noneMore wonderful than man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,He's fit for public authority. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Reason is God's crowning gift to man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Wisdom outweighs any wealth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: ElectraGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: TrachiniaeGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: TrachiniaeGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: TrachiniaeGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: Oedipus at ColonusGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Stranger in a strange country. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: Oedipus at ColonusGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: The good befriend themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: Oedipus at ColonusGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: It made our hair stand up in panic fear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: CreusaGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AcrisiusGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: To him who is in fear everything rustles. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sophocles info: AcrisiusGreek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) quote: No man loves life like him that's growing old. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: A second wifeis hateful to the children of the first;a viper is not more hateful. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: A sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: "You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Alcestis, 438 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Time cancels young pain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Rhesus, circa 435 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Medea, 431 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Medea, 431 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Medea, 431 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Medea, 431 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: I know indeed what evil I intend to do,but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Hippolytus, 428 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: There is one thing alonethat stands the brunt of life throughout its course:a quiet conscience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Hippolytus, 428 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Hippolytus, 428 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Leave no stone unturned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Electra, 413 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: AegeusGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: AegeusGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: A bad beginning makes a bad ending. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: AeolusGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: AlexanderGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: AntigoneGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: TemenidaeGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: PhrixusGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: Whoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Euripides info: PhrixusGreek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) quote: The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: Men trust their ears less than their eyes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: It is better to be envied than pitied. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: Force has no place where there is need of skill. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: Haste in every business brings failures. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Herodotus info: The Histories of HerodotusGreek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) quote: In soft regions are born soft men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Protagoras info: Fragment 1Greek philosopher (485 BC - 421 BC) quote: Man is the measure of all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Protagoras info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher (485 BC - 421 BC) quote: There are two sides to every question. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear PoemsGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: from Plutarch, Of BanishmentGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Democritus info: Fragment 145Greek philosopher (460 BC - 370 BC) quote: Word is a shadow of a deed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: EpidemicsGreek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: PreceptsGreek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: LawGreek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: DecorumGreek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: Regimen in HealthGreek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: RegimenGreek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: Many admire, few know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hippocrates info: RegimenGreek physician (460 BC - 377 BC) quote: Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thucydides info: Peloponnesian WarGreek historian (471 BC - 400 BC) quote: We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Knights, 424 B.C.Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: "You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Wasps, 422 B.C.Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never foughtShould contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native landNever to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Wasps, 422 B.C.Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: Let each man exercise the art he knows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: Under every stone lurks a politician. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Frogs, 405 B.C.Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,At which the audience never fail to laugh? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Frogs, 405 B.C.Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: High thoughts must have high language. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristophanes info: Plutus, 388 B.C.Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC) quote: A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Agathon info: from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (448 BC - 400 BC) quote: "This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zeuxis info: Greek painter (~400 BC) quote: Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, PhaedrusGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Friends have all things in common. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: in Plato, Dialogues, ApologyGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: The unexamined life is not worth living. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, ApologyGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Socrates info: in Plato, Dialogues, ApologyGreek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) quote: The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, PhaedoGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, PhaedoGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, PhaedoGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: The beginning is the most important part of the work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: "There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: The RepublicGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, ParmenidesGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: You cannot conceive the many without the one. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, TheatetusGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plato info: Dialogues, TheatetusGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) quote: You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Phocion info: from Plutarch, ApothegmsGreek general & politician in Athens (402 BC - 318 BC) quote: Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Diogenes the Cynic info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (412 BC - 323 BC) quote: "[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Hope is a waking dream. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: "I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PhysicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Parts of AnimalsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: MetaphysicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: All men by nature desire knowledge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: One swallow does not make a summer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: We must as second best...take the least of the evils. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: We make war that we may live in peace. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Nichomachean EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Man is by nature a political animal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: They should rule who are able to rule best. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Politics (quoting a proverb)Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Well begun is half done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: The basis of a democratic state is liberty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: PoliticsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Law is order, and good law is good order. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: RhetoricGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Evil draws men together. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: RhetoricGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: RhetoricGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: RhetoricGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Aristotle info: Eudemian EthicsGreek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Demosthenes info: First OlynthiacGreek orator & politician in Athens (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Demosthenes info: Third OlynthiacGreek orator & politician in Athens (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Demosthenes info: Third OlynthiacGreek orator & politician in Athens (384 BC - 322 BC) quote: You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mencius info: WorksChinese Confucian philosopher (371 BC - 289 BC) quote: Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mencius info: WorksChinese Confucian philosopher (371 BC - 289 BC) quote: Sincerity is the way of Heaven. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mencius info: WorksChinese Confucian philosopher (371 BC - 289 BC) quote: Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuang-tzu info: On Leveling All Things (369 BC - 286 BC) quote: Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuang-tzu info: The Great Supreme (369 BC - 286 BC) quote: He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuang-tzu info: On Tolerance (369 BC - 286 BC) quote: Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun-tzu info: Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC) quote: A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun-tzu info: Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC) quote: The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun-tzu info: Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC) quote: Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Menander info: Lady of AndrosGreek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC) quote: Riches cover a multitude of woes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Menander info: The Double DeceiverGreek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC) quote: Whom the gods love dies young. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Menander info: The Woman Possessed with a DivinityGreek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC) quote: Deus ex machina [A god from the machine] rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Menander info: Unidentified fragmentGreek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC) quote: I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Menander info: Unidentified fragmentGreek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC) quote: It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Menander info: Monostikoi (Single Lines)Greek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC) quote: The man who runs may fight again. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epicurus info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC) quote: Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epicurus info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC) quote: Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theophrastus info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek botanist, humorist, & naturalist (372 BC - 287 BC) quote: Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Zeno info: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersGreek philosopher (335 BC - 264 BC) quote: The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bion info: Greek bucolic poet (~100 BC) quote: Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pyrrhus info: from Plutarch, Livesking of Epirus 306b-302b, 297b-272b (319 BC - 272 BC) quote: Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leonidas of Tarentum info: from The Greek Anthology, 1973, Peter Jay (290 BC - 220 BC) quote: An exile's life is no life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Archimedes info: from Pappus of Alexandria, CollectioGreek inventor, mathematician, & physicist (287 BC - 212 BC) quote: Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quintus Fabius Maximus info: from Plutarch, LivesRoman general (275 BC - 203 BC) quote: To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: TrinummusRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: TrinummusRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: RudensRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: Miles GloriosusRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: Miles GloriosusRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: No man is wise enough by himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: EpidicusRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Maccius Plautus info: AsinariaRoman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC) quote: Practice yourself what you preach. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bhagavad Gita info: Chapter 2 (250 BC - 250 AD) quote: For certain is death for the bornAnd certain is birth for the dead;Therefore over the inevitableThou shouldst not grieve. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bhagavad Gita info: Chapter 2 (250 BC - 250 AD) quote: On action alone be thy interest,Never on its fruits.Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,Nor be thy attachment to inaction. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cato the Elder info: On AgricultureRoman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC) quote: Even though work stops, expenses run on. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cato the Elder info: from Plutarch, LivesRoman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC) quote: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cato the Elder info: from Seneca the Elder, ControversiaeRoman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC) quote: An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Caecilius Statius info: Synephebi (220 BC - 168 BC) quote: He plants trees to benefit another generation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Polybius info: HistoryGreek historian (205 BC - 118 BC) quote: Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Polybius info: HistoryGreek historian (205 BC - 118 BC) quote: There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence info: AndriaRoman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) quote: Moderation in all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence info: AndriaRoman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) quote: Charity begins at home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence info: EunuchusRoman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) quote: In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence info: EunuchusRoman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) quote: I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence info: PhormioRoman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) quote: Fortune helps the brave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence info: AdelphoeRoman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) quote: I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Terentius Varro info: On AgricultureRoman scholar (116 BC - 27 BC) quote: The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: Pro MiloneRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: Law stands mute in the midst of arms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: Pro Publio SestioRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: Pro Publio SestioRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: The freedom of poetic license. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: De LegibusRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: The people's good is the highest law. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: De LegibusRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: Let the punishment match the offense. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: De AmicitiaRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: De AmicitiaRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: A friend is, as it were, a second self. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Cicero info: PhilippicsRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) quote: Endless money forms the sinews of war. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julius Caesar info: De Bello GallicoRoman author, general, & politician (100 BC - 44 BC) quote: Men willingly believe what they wish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julius Caesar info: from Suetonius, Lives of the CaesarsRoman author, general, & politician (100 BC - 44 BC) quote: Veni, vidi, vici.[I came, I saw, I conquered] rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julius Caesar info: from Suetonius, Lives of the CaesarsRoman author, general, & politician (100 BC - 44 BC) quote: Et tu, Brute.[You also, Brutus.] rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Julius Caesar info: from Plutarch, LivesRoman author, general, & politician (100 BC - 44 BC) quote: It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lucretius info: De Rerum NaturaRoman Epicurean poet, philosopher, & scientist (96 BC - 55 BC) quote: Such evil deeds could religion prompt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lucretius info: De Rerum NaturaRoman Epicurean poet, philosopher, & scientist (96 BC - 55 BC) quote: Nothing can be created from nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lucretius info: De Rerum NaturaRoman Epicurean poet, philosopher, & scientist (96 BC - 55 BC) quote: What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sallust info: The War with CatilineRoman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC) quote: The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sallust info: The War with CatilineRoman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC) quote: Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sallust info: The War with CatilineRoman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC) quote: To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: EcloguesRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: A snake lurks in the grass. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: EcloguesRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: "Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: EcloguesRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: Death's brother, Sleep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: Each of us bears his own Hell. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Virgil info: AeneidRoman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) quote: Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: SatiresRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: There is measure in all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: SatiresRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: SatiresRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow![Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: In adversity remember to keep an even mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: OdesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: The covetous man is ever in want. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Horace info: EpistlesRoman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) quote: He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Caesar Augustus info: from Suetonius, AugustusRoman politician (63 BC - 14 AD) quote: I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Caesar Augustus info: from Plutarch, ApothegmsRoman politician (63 BC - 14 AD) quote: Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Titus Livius info: HistoryRoman author & historian (59 BC - 17 AD) quote: Better late than never. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: It is better to learn late than never. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: To do two things at once is to do neither. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: A good reputation is more valuable than money. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Many receive advice, few profit by it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: What is left when honor is lost? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: There are some remedies worse than the disease. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Never find your delight in another's misfortune. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: A rolling stone gathers no moss. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Never promise more than you can perform. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: No one should be judge in his own case. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: It is only the ignorant who despise education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: It is not every question that deserves an answer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: No man is happy who does not think himself so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Money alone sets all the world in motion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: No one knows what he can do till he tries. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Publilius Syrus info: " (~100 BC)" quote: "Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sextus Propertius info: ElegiesRoman poet (? - 15 BC) quote: Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sextus Propertius info: ElegiesRoman poet (? - 15 BC) quote: Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sextus Propertius info: ElegiesRoman poet (? - 15 BC) quote: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ovid info: AmoresRoman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) quote: So I can't live either without you or with you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ovid info: Ars AmatoriaRoman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) quote: To be loved, be lovable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ovid info: Ars AmatoriaRoman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) quote: Nothing is stronger than habit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ovid info: MetamorphosesRoman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) quote: We can learn even from our enemies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ovid info: MetamorphosesRoman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) quote: Time the devourer of all things. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Phaedrus info: FablesRoman author of fables (15 BC - 50 AD) quote: To add insult to injury. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: The best ideas are common property. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: It is quality rather than quantity that matters. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Seneca info: EpistlesRoman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) quote: There is no great genius without some touch of madness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Caligula (Gaius Caesar) info: From SuetoniusRoman emperor 037-041 (12 AD - 41 AD) quote: Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Elder info: Natural HistoryRoman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) quote: In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Elder info: Natural HistoryRoman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) quote: Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Elder info: Natural HistoryRoman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) quote: There is always something new out of Africa. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pliny the Elder info: Natural HistoryRoman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) quote: The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gaius Petronius info: " (~66 AD)" quote: One good turn deserves another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quintilian info: "De Institutione OratoriaRoman rhetorician " quote: A liar should have a good memory. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Quintilian info: "De Institutione OratoriaRoman rhetorician " quote: Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Flavius Josephus info: LifeJewish-Roman historian & turncoat (37 AD - 100 AD) quote: Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Valerius Martialis info: Epigrams (40 AD - 103 AD) quote: Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Valerius Martialis info: Epigrams (40 AD - 103 AD) quote: Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Valerius Martialis info: Epigrams (40 AD - 103 AD) quote: A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Valerius Martialis info: Epigrams (40 AD - 103 AD) quote: "Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plutarch info: LivesGreek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) quote: Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plutarch info: MoralsGreek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) quote: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plutarch info: MoralsGreek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) quote: An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plutarch info: MoralsGreek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) quote: When the candles are out all women are fair. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Plutarch info: MoralsGreek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) quote: For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. rating: 0 tags: []