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"Experience is a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other."
Ben Franklin
"For ever one person getting at the root of a problem, there are a thousand pulling at the leaves."
Don't remember who said it, but it was never more true than now, with everybody coming up with solutions to the economy.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ---George Orwell[/url]
That's my favorite. I used to use that as my signature line in a forum, but it didn't protect me from being cited by the moderators for infractions anyway.
Windwalker, that was Thoreau: "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." --- Henry David Thoreau.
My favorite historical quote...from French novelist Gustave Flaubert, on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War:
"When all this is over, we'll still be stupid."
H.L Mencken was an extremely rich source for quotes:
"Puritanism is the haunting fear that somebody, somewhere, may be happy."
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be watching."
"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."
"We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
"The cosmos is a gigantic fly wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride."
George Bernard Shaw is responsible for:
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
"The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else."
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul, may always depend upon the support of Paul."
"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
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Others...
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."...Frank Zappa
"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that the people might remember."...Eugene McCarthy
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."....Oscar Wilde
"A thing is not neccessarily true because a man dies for it."....Oscar Wilde.
"Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the golden future."......Aldous Huxley
"The one thing your friends will never forgive you is your happiness." ....Albert Camus
"I only drink to make other people seem interesting." .....George Jean Nathan
"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."....Alex Comfort
Still more from Sir Winston, the source of an almost endless array of wonderful quotes, when referring to the RAF during the Battle if Britain;
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.”
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