Life is all about having a good time.
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor
More will mean worse.
Martin Amis
It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.
Ezra Pound
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
Salman Rushdie
The war of words is done;The red-lipped cannon speak;The battle has begun.The web your speeches spunTears and blood shall streak;The war of words is done.Smoke enshrouds the sun;Earth staggers at the shriekOf battle new begun.Poltroons and braggarts run:Woe to the poor, the meek!The war of words is done.And hope not now to shunThe doom that dogs the weak,Thunders every gun;Victory must be won.When the red-lipped cannon speak,The war of words is done,The slaughter has begun.
John Davidson
Sleep is better than medicine.
Source Unknown
Only entropy comes easy.
Lewis Mumford
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
Soren Kierkegaard
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Mason Cooley
The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
Calvin Coolidge
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
No one every listened themselves out of a job.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.
Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but dont be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but dont be a demagogue. Dont hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Dont hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Dont expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Dont hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.
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