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My favourite Quotes^^
6/10/2008 12:46 am Last Read: |
"Thinking is the hardest work there is - that is why so few engage in it" Henry Ford (American Industrialist) ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’ George Bernard Shaw, UK playwright (1856-1950) "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." (Dom Helda Camara, 1970) What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 194  "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." (Plato, 347 B.C.) "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910) "Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." (Chief Seattle, "Cree" North American Indian Tribe) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902) "To repeat what others have said requires education; to challenge it requires brains." (Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 193 "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." (H.L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)) "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." (James Russell Lowell,American - poet, critic, essayist, editor and diplomat; 1819-1891) "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964. US psychologist (1904 - 1990) "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Lenin, Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924) "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him." Henry Stimson, US politician (1867 - 1950) "Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself." (Chinese Proverb) "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 - 1881) "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science." Louis Pasteur, French biologist & bacteriologist (1822 - 1895) "The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself." Noam Chomsky, US activist & linguist (1928 - ) "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."(Louis Dembitz Brandeis) |
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6/10/2008 3:03 am |
Good ones, Owen. Here s my childhood favorite as I was learning English: "What me worry?" Al E. Neuman. [image]
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