" The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" It is said that power corrupts, but actually it

" Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it. "

Mark Leeper

" If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said “No.” "

Margaret “Stevie” Smith

" If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. "

Yiddish Proverb

" The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. "

Jonathan Edwards

" Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. "

Sir Richard Steele

" I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. "

Franklin P. Adams US journalist (1881 – 1960)

" It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. "

Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

" [On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978 US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 – 1991)

" Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. "

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

" Good taste is the enemy of creativity "

Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. "

Carl Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”, 1962 Swiss psychologist (1875 – 1961)

" Women prefer men who have something tender about them — especially the legal kind. "

Kay Ingram

" The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action. "

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)

" Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. "

Titus Livius Roman author & historian (59 BC – 17 AD)

" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "

Milton Friedman US economist (1912 – )

" Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. "

Benjamin Disraeli British politician (1804 – 1881)

" …my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. "

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything. "

Katharine Butler Hathaway

" Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. "

Agnes Repplier US essayist (1855 – 1950)

" You want to raise your child in such a way that you don

" The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. "

Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, “A Random Walk in Science” compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

" But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. "

Alan Watts

" I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals… "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow. "

J. M. Barrie

" In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life. "

Frank Zappa US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 – 1993)

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