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Quotations
Just a page for various quotations I find interesting, if not necessarily relevant to anything in particular.
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Women hold up half the sky. Mao Zedong |
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet. Damon Runyan |
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. Edward Langley |
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To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife. Sir Karl Popper |
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The first thing that dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship. Fidel Castro (16 April, 1959) |
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We all have the strength to bear the misfortunes of others. La Rochefoucauld |
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All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. Enoch Powell |
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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Pearl S Buck |
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I'm as pure as the driven slush. Tallulah Bankhead |
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each other to live as seems good to the rest. John Stuart Mill |
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All women are beautiful, but under the skin of Italian women runs blood, under the skin of French women runs milk. Gianlorenzo Bernini |
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Laugh and the world laughs with you. snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess |
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All I know is that I know nothing. Socrates |
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Love conquers all, so let us yield to love. Virgil |
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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. Lord Falkland |
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Those who do not sometimes go outside the rules never go beyond them. Gianlorenzo Bernini |
updated May 2004
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