Quote of the day

Berating God because people abuse ‘religion’ is like scrapping arithmetic because of lying accountants.

 

One day you will ask me which is more important, my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life  -K. Gibran

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment -Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box (not sure who)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch,  you must first create the universe -Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech -Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo -H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions -Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me -Charles William Stubbs

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking -Katherine Cebrian

Political correctness is tyranny with manners – Charlton Heston (1924-2008)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate -Thomas Jones

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence -Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day  I intend reading it. -Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street – Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver -Solomon

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims -Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy – Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end- Igor Stravinsky

I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial – Irvin S. Cobb

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers -T.S. Eliot

Don’t be so humble,  you are not that great -Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good -Samuel Johnson

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters -Frank Lloyd Wright

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake -N. Bonaparte

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him -Booker T. Washington

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience -Ralph W. Emerson

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education -A Einstein

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent’s -Grantland Rice

Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree -Joyce Kilmer

Truth cannot live without warfare in the midst of a world away from God -F.W. Grant

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes  -H. Thoreau