What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby Maybe we'll never know. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. (Osbert Sitwell)
The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. (G Gaia)
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. (Woodrow Wilson)
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full. (Muriel Spark)
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. (Elizabeth Warnock Fernea)
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. (Thomas Alva Edison)
Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us. (Andrew Schneider)
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics. (Mark Twain)
Don't hold on to anything too tightly sooner or later, you'll have to let go. (David Nestor)
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. (Homer)
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. (Horace)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. (Gary Zukav)
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. (Mao Zedong)
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Felix Frankfurter)
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field (Jim Boulton)
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. (Robert Jackson)
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. (Thomas Henry Huxley)