Quotations to Contemplate
The most recently posted quote is at the top.
Some people are like slinkies. They are not really good for anything, however, they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
Being in politics is like being a football coach.
You have to be smart enough to understand the game,
and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene McCarthy
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
- Oscar Levant
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
- Paul Fix
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
"We have too many high sounding words,
and too few actions that correspond with them."
-- Abigail Adams, U.S. First Lady
"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves,
that we should take seriously."
- Peter Ustinov
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think
and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the
stream always wins - not through strength but by
perseverance."
-- H. Jackson Brown
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
- Herbert Hoover
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it
from our children."
- Native American proverb
Don't let life discourage you;
everyone who got where he is
had to begin where he was.
-Richard L. Evans
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson
"The really frightening thing about middle age
is that you know you'll grow out of it."
- Doris Day
Any event, once it has occurred,
can be made to appear inevitable
by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson
Think like a man of action,act like a man of thought.
- Henry Bergson
Those who fight fire with fire burn their houses down twice
as fast.
- Vietnamese Proverb
The man who makes no mistakes
does not usually make anything.
- Bishop W.C. Magee
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more
than he loves himself."
-Josh Billings
"Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity."
L. A. Safian
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
-- Albert Einstein
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
-- Will Rogers, Humorist
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare
and love we can spare.
And in return, dogs give us their all.
It's the best deal man has ever made."
--M.Facklam
“In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance,
everyone should have a dog that will worship him
and a cat that will ignore him.”
-- Dereke Bruce
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
--Andrew A. Rooney
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
-- Proverb
"If you don't think too good, don't think too much."
-- Ted Williams
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
-- Will Rogers
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
-- Samuel Ullman
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked
solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
-- Proverb
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
-- Eric Hoffer
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong."
-- Henry Louis Mencken
Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
-- Lance Armstrong
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do,
but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
-- John Holt
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society."
-- Krishnamurti
"When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot in it and hang on."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us happy
is something to be enthusiastic about."
-- Albert Einstein
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
-- Italian Proverb
At last our prayers have been answered:
The Iraqi people are about to become free
of their anti-democratic, power-crazed, war-mongering,
decisive, ruthless ruler.
Now, friends, we start praying for the American people.
-- Anon
The truth of the matter is
that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
-- General Schwarzkpof
"Thinking is the hardest work there is.
That is why so few people engage in it."
-- Henry Ford
The Universe
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov
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