Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Today's Quotes

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Unknown


Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.

Paul Gauguin


I shut my eyes in order to see.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)


Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Chief Joseph, on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877


Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Muhammad Ali


Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Sallust


Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet


To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Henry Christopher Bailey


Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

W. E. Gladstone


No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

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John Donne


Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

Eli Khamarov


Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him were he standing right in front of them.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment


...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

Eubie


A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation.

Jean De la Fontaine


Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend;
A wise enemy is worth more.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Happy Gilmore


Happy Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor the accountant. Probably a great golfer. Huge ass.

Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart


The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Jacob Bigelow


Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

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Great Famous Quotes

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John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com


The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you�re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

George W. Bush


Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2


2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Edith Hamilton


To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

Sun-tzu


A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

Anon.


I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show


I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Mark Twain


There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator

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Oscar Wilde


The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Lyndon B. Johnson


When I was a boy ... we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner

Kahlil Gibran


Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

South


A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

Vulgate


Great is truth, and all powerful.

Isaac Asimov


Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Marie Curie


Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography (1964)


All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

C. S. Lewis


No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Louis Celine


Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

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