The Immortal Word: 1/14/07

January 20, 2007

I'll say this for adversity...

I'll say this for adversity--people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more'n I kin say fer prosperity.

--Kim Hubbard

Great spirits have always encountered...

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

--Albert Einstein

Adversity, if a man is set down...

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

--Samuel Butler

Paradoxical as it may seem...

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

--Dorothy L. Sayers

Is not wisdom found among...

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

- Bible, Job 12:12

I'd like to go on being 35...

I'd like to go on being 35 for a long time.

--Margaret Thatcher

He was a wise man who...

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

--Euripides

To consult is to seek another's...

To consult is to seek another's advice on a course already decided upon.

--Ambrose Bierce

No one wants advice...

No one wants advice--only corroboration.

--John Steinbeck

I have found the best way to give...

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

--Harry S. Truman

Good advice is always certain...

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

--Agatha Christie

Friendship will not stand the strain...

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

--Robert Lynd

Don't tell your friends their...

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

--Logan Pearsall Smith

Advice is like snow...

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By night an atheist...

By night an atheist half believes in God.

--Edward Young

Atheism is rather in the life...

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.

--Francis Bacon

Nietzsche and Modern Times; A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche

An atheist, like a Christian...

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial...an agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice.

--Bertrand Russell

Art is not a handicraft...

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

--Leo Tolstoy

Art is either plagiarism...

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

--Paul Guaguin

Art is a collaboration...

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

--Andre Gide

Another unsettling element in modern art...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

--Edith Warton

How much more grievous are...

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

--Marcus Aurelius

He who angers you...

He who angers you conquers you.

--Elizabeth Kenny

I saw the angel in the marble...

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

--Michelangelo

Unquestionably, there is progress...

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

--H. L. Mencken

Too many of us look upon Americans...

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

--Albert Einstein

Tip the world over on its side...

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

--Frank Lloyd Wright

The genius of you Americans is that...

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing.

--Gamel Abd Al-Nasser

You have not converted a man...

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

--John Morley

Trust the man who hesitates...

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

--George Santanyana

There is no conversation more boring...

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

--Michel de Montaigne

The sounder your argument...

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

--Ed Howe

The fellow that agrees with everything...

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

--Kin Hubbard

Silence is one of the hardest...

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

--Josh Billings

People generally quarrel...

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

--Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is better to debate a question...

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

--Jeseph Joubert

I have never in my life...

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

--Dudley Field Malone

I do not think that the real reason...

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

--Bertrand Russell

I argue very well...

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

--Dave Barry

He who establishes his argument...

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

--Michel de Montaigne

He that always gives way to others...

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

--Aesop

A man never tells you anything...

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

--George Bernard Shaw

Quotations

Quotations (Collins Gem Ser) (Paperback)

Author: Not Available (NA). Number of Pages: 448. Published On: 2004/10/30. Language: ENGLISH

Bartlett S Familiar Quotations

Bartlett S Familiar Quotations: A Collection Of Passages, Phrases, And Proverbs Traced To Their Sources In Ancient And Modern Literature

A new edition of the classic reference, first published in 1855, features more than twenty thousand quotations, representing some 2,500 authors, including new selections from Bill Clinton, Margaret Atwood, and Mother Teresa. Author: Bartlett, John/ Kaplan, Justin (EDT)/ Kaplan, Justin. Number of Pages: 1431. Published On: 2002/10/01. Language: ENGLISH

Langenscheidt's Pocket Merriam Webster Guide To Quotations

Langenscheidt's Pocket Merriam Webster Guide To Quotations (Paperback)

Author: Langenscheidt (EDT). Number of Pages: 501. Published On: 2002/12/01. Language: ENGLISH

January 18, 2007

There was never a genius...

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

--Aristotle

Let the word go forth from this time...

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If you think the United States has stood still...

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

--Richard M. Nixon

An asylum for the sane...

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

--Anonymous

America is the only contry that went...

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

--Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom; A Book of Quotations

America is the country where...

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.

--Anonymous

It is the mark of an educated mind...

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

--Aristotle

You must do the things...

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

You must be the change...

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

--Gandhi

The roots of true achievement...

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

--Harold Taylor

Shoot for the moon...

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

--Les Brown

Keep away from people who try...

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

--Mark Twain

Hold fast to dreams...

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly.

--Langston Hughes

Don't be afraid to take a big step...

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

--David Lloyd George

An ounce of hypocrisy...

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

--Michael Korda

A wise man is cured of ambition...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

--Samuel Johnson

A person who aims at nothing...

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

--Anonymous

Two great European narcotics...

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche and Modern Times; A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche

Reality is a delusion created...

Reality is a delusion created by an alcohol deficiency.

--Anonymous

Maybe alcohol picks you up...

Maybe alcohol picks you up a little bit, but it sure lets you down in a hurry.

--Betty Ford

It was my Uncle George who discovered...

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a good well in advance of modern medical thought.

--P. G. Wodehouse

I always keep a supply of stimulant...

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.

--W. C. Fields

Crazy folks shouldn't drink...

Crazy folks shouldn't drink--it's like throwing gasoline on a banked fire.

--Donald Newlove

The gods are too...

The gods are too fond of a joke.

--Aristotle

Always rememer, I have taken more...

Always remember, I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

--Winston Churchill

An atheist is one who hopes...

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

--Franklin P. Jones

Age has its compensation...

Age has its compensation. It is less apt to be brow-beaten by discretion.

--Charlie Chaplain

A good man giving bad advice...

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

--Conor Cruise O'Brien

Adversity has the effect of eliciting...

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

--Horace

Do infants have as much fun...

Do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?

--Anonymous

First you take a drink...

First you take a drink. Then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every form of addiction is bad...

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether it be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

--Carl Jung

Cocaine isn't habit-forming

Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know. I've been using it for years.

--Tallulah Bankhead

Blow your mind...

Blow your mind--smoke dynamite. --Anonymous

All sins tend to be addictive...

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what's called damnation.

--W. H. Auden

Write the bad things that are done...

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

--Arab Parable

What you do speaks so loudly...

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are what we repeatedly do...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

--Aristotle

Under conditions of tyranny...

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

--Hannah Arendt

Trust the man who hesitates...

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

--George Santanyana

To accomplish great things...

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

--Anatole France

Throughout history, it has been...

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

--Haile Selassie