Miscellaneous Quotations

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"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

-Bertrand Russell

"I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life."

-John Fowles

"Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives."

-Richard Bach

"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."

-Samuel Johnson

"The difference between the artist and the non-artist is that the artist never stops playing."

-Alex Mozart

"Art is meant to disturb."

-Georges Braque

"With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance."

-Norman Mailer

"Man created women--out of what? Out of a rib of his god, of his 'ideal.'"

-Nietzsche

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."

-Rotarian

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves."

-Garth Henrichs

"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."

-Teddy Roosevelt

"In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify."

-Henry David Thoreau

"The effect is totally different from the cause, and consequently can never be discovered in it."

-David Hume

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

-Henry David Thoreau

"The road to a friend's house is never long."

-Danish proverb

"Idleness is the parent of all psychology. What? Is psychology then a vice?"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you mean whiskey, the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pits of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being.
However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life's great tragedies and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it.
This is my position, and as always, I refuse to be compromised on matters of principle."

-Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat, Jr.

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

-Charles Austin Beard

"Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain."

-Julius C. Hare, Augustus W. Hare

"It is the theory that decides what can be observed."

-Albert Einstein

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

-Henry David Thoreau

"I love those who yearn for the impossible."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

-Henry David Thoreau

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

-W. Somerset Maugham

"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."

-W. Edwards Deming

"When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses."

-unknown

"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it."

-Lao-Tzu

"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."

-Robert M. Pirsig

"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."

-Mark Twain

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

-William Blake