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A few of these came from Mark Rosenfelder's excellent page. Go there. Now. "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
quotations...The quotations when engraved upon the mind give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and
you are the easiest person to fool." "With two thousand years of examples behind us, we have no
excuses when fighting for not fighting well." "The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it
seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to
save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve
the lot of his subjects." "There is no finer investment for any community than putting
milk into babies." "Si le bon Dieu a mis les anglais sur une île, c'est qu'Il
avait Ses raisons." "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." "Si vous voyez un banqueir Suisse sauter d'une fenêtre, sautez
après lui. Il y as sûrement de l'argent." "I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time.
...we shall never see his like again. His name will live in history. It will
live in the annals of war...It will live in the legends of Arabia!" "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of
blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing,
after they've exhausted all other options." "Do not say things. What you are stands over
you the while, and thunders so I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." "It's a bad thing, I have to assume, when one looks back on
one's existence and the only thing that comes to mind is: eep." "If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the Mayor,
if he could only read." "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and
statistics." "People commonly use statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost:
for support rather than illumination." "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." "Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not
always like being taught." "Rain, after all, is only rain; it is not bad weather. So
also, pain is only pain, unless we resist it, when it becomes torment." "Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress." "Success consists of going from failure to failure with...
enthusiasm!" "I'm not confused, just well mixed." "Russian men have a saying: 'Women are like buses...'
That's it." "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about
life. It goes on." "I don't want to attain immortality through my works. I
want to get it by not dying." "Philosophia est ars vítæ." "Mé philosophiæ dó." "After ecstasy, the laundry." "Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon." "Life is too important to be taken seriously." "Everybody has the right to pronounce foreign names as he
chooses." "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." "In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." "The average man is more interested in a woman who is
interested in him than he is in a woman -- any woman -- with beautiful legs." "Say what you have to say, and the first time you come to a
sentence with a grammatical ending -- sit down." |