Quotes, by subject
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
and Aaron Fuegi's selected
quotations
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 | "Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day" -
Camus |
| "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably wind up
somewhere else" - Laurence J Peter |
| "The most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in two
jumps" - David Lloyd George |
| "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble
enterprise" - Tacitus |
| "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with
what happens to him" - Aldous Huxley |
| "Leadership is action, not position" - Donald McGannon |
| "To escape criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing" -
Elbert Hubbard |
| "It is people of character who throw the switch" - John Cowan |
| "Good and evil both increase at compund interest. That is why the
little decisons you and I make every day are of such infinite
importance." C.S. Lewis |
| "Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things
that never were, and say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw |
| "If not now, when?" - Hillel
From "J.D. Falk" jdfalk@cais.com: |
| "The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a
nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions." - Anonymous
('Hacker's Law') |
| "He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose
his head." -Stephen R. Donaldson
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| "Bad artists always admire each other's work" - Oscar Wilde
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| "Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which
he has, and that which he thinks he has" - Alphonse Karr |
| "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew
he never would be found out." - Macaulay |
| "What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you
say" - Emerson |
| "Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely
rooted in your life." - William James |
| "The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live" -
Norman Cousins |
| "Who is more foolish - the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid
of the light?" - Maurice Freehill |
| "Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate" -
Gordon Allport |
| "Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover
virtue"- Francis
Bacon |
| "'Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to some poeple"
- Tom Masson |
| "Only a mediocre person is always at his best" - Somerset
Maugham |
| "A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily
to those who have no taste for it." - Oscar Wilde |
| "It is people of character who throw the switch, it is people of
character who ask probing questions" - John Cowan |
| "The safest way to avoid hypocrisy is simple; eliminate the standards
one might have trouble keeping" - R Scott Richards |
| "Responsibility is the one thing people dread most of all. Yet it is
the one thing in the world that develops us" - Frank Crane |
| "I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the
best." -Walt Whitman |
| "The higest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it." - John Ruskin |
| "God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for
scars." - Elbert Hubbard |
| "When a small man casts a big shadow, the sun is setting." -
skeptic3@aol.com (Skeptic3)
See also: |
| Courage |
| Responsibility |
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| "Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be
out of a job." -- Unknown, courtesy of grossman@saints.ssc.nasa.gov
From Loring Holden:
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| What's wrong with the WWW? |
- "It's like being in a library where someone has scattered all the
books on the floor, attached them together with threads and you are in the
dark." MorningSide, CBC Radio, May 1995
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- If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than
five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the
same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
Useful feature, that. - Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation
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| "The unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the
unknown" - Joseph Cook |
| "In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place"
- Mohandas Gandhi |
| "How could a state be governed..if every individual remained free to
obey or not to obey the law" - Hobbes |
| "The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it:
but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it" - Madame
de Stael
See also: The Man In The Glass |
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| "Have the courage to live. Anyone can die." - Robert Cody |
| "Courage is grace under pressure" - Hemingway |
| "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace with
yourself" - Amelia Earhart
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| "A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
- Stalin |
| "Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to
live" - Saul Alinsky |
| "In the long run we are all dead" - Keynes |
| "We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't
be taken seriously" - Eugene Ionesco |
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| "Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted.
In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a
howling reproach." - Ted Koppel |
| "We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves" - Eric Hoffer |
| "Boy, the truth gets vicious when you corner it" - Dogbert |
| "You say that you have a great respect for truth. Is that why you
always place yourself at such a respectful distance from it? - Escriva |
| "If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the
light" - John Cowan |
| "Silliness is the last refuge of the doomed" - Opus |
| "How can we overcome a handicap we refuse to acknowledge?" -
Kurt D. Bruner |
| "Have I therefore become your enemy by telling you the truth?" -
Paul |
| "And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; For
truth has stumbled in the street, And uprightness cannot enter." -
Isaiah |
| "Give denial a chance" - Judy Stein |
| "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened" - Winston Churchill |
| "Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds,
vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one
would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor
shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to
themselves?" - Francis
Bacon |
| "Advice is what people ask for when we already know the answer but
wish we didn't." -Erica Jong
See also: |
| Truth |
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| "Like and equal are two different things" - Madeleine L'Engle |
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| "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing" - Edmund Burke |
| "Good and evil both increase at compund interest. That is why the
little decisons you and I make every day are of such infinite
importance." C.S. Lewis |
| "In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that
no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise
up a thousandfold in the future" - Solzhenitsyn |
| "Healthy mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine,
because the evil facts which it refuses postively to account for are a
genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's
significance." - William James |
| "If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the
light" - John Cowan |
| "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one
striking at the root" - Thoreau
From Octobersdad@crecon.demon.co.uk ("T. Bruce Tober"): |
| All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is
offered. |
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English man of letters, explorer
- It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone
are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist
- So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as
we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to
do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Anglo-American poet
- When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before.
- Mae West (1892-1980) American film actress
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| "In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste,
swim with the current" - Jefferson |
| "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts" - Henry Adams |
| "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of
men" - Abraham Lincoln |
| "The safest way to avoid hypocrisy is simple; eliminate the standards
one might have trouble keeping" - R Scott Richards |
| "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream" -
Malcolm Muggeridge
The trouble with going with the flow is, you might wind up getting sucked
down the drain. |
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| "The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot
his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good
shot, but not necessarily a good man" - Chesterton |
| "Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the
little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite
importance." C.S. Lewis |
| "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness
realized by man ever dies, or can die." - Thomas Carlyle |
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| "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" -
Tacitus |
| "Guidelines for bureaucrats: 1) When in charge ponder 2) When in
trouble delegate 3) When in doubt mumble" - James H. Boren |
| "Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent" - Boies
Penrose |
| "The constitution not only is, but ought to be, what the judges say
it is" - Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes |
| "Who shall guard the guardians themselves?" - Juvenal |
| "Every nation has the government it deserves" - de Maistre |
| "A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws
strictly observed" - Descartes |
| "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice" -
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| "Military justice is to justice what military music is to
music." - Georges Clemenceau |
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