July 2008
5 posts
“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily...”
– Bruce Lee
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be...”
– P. J. O’Rourke
“Understand, we were not just selling motorized sticks. We were also teaching...”
– Confessions of a Sex-Shop Salesgirl, by Arianne Cohen
“If you can’t get your kids to eat vegetables, why is it my job? ”
– Jim Skinner, CEO of McDonald’s
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”
– Bertrand Russell
May 2008
1 post
“Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not...”
– Joseph Schumpeter
April 2008
30 posts
“We are overrun with Popes. From curates and governesses, who may claim a sort of...”
– G.B. Shaw
“I sometimes think that we all die at twenty-five, and after that are nothing but...”
– George Santayana
“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of”
– Montaigne
“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent...”
– John Gardiner
“He who has imagination without erudition has wings while he lacks legs”
– Joseph Joubert
“I am afraid to tell you who I am because, if I tell you who I am, you may not...”
– John Powell
“Devils can be drawn out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand or a mouth...”
– Tennessee Williams
“If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what...”
– Lao-Tsu
“I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers by to...”
– Barnard Berenson (When almost 90 yrs old)
“Never play cards with a man called Doc.
Never eat at a place called...”
– Nelson Algren
“I’d rather earn 1% of a hundred people’s efforts than 100% of my own”
– John Paul Getty
“There are two types of people who never amount to anything in this world: those...”
– Einstein
“Worrying is a non-creative form of imagination which is too often accepted as...”
– Alex F. Osborn (Inventor of ‘Brainstorming’)
“You can only talk to a hungry man in terms of bread”
– Ghandi
“All the great things are simple”
– Winston Churchill
“Life without industry is guilt and industry without art is brutality”
– John Ruskin
“If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it, because...”
– Krishnamurti
“All life is a gamble, a risk-taking excercise. Those who take no risks take the...”
– Damon Runyon
“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
– Christopher Morley
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings”
– William Blake
“If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to...”
– Christopher Morley
“The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in...”
– Bouee
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way”
– Christopher Morley
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment”
– Lao-Tsu
“Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have,...”
– Satre
“3 Goals of Marriage:
1) Tenderness
2) Free your partner of anxiety
3) Foster...”
– Gunter F. Gross
“The greatest affliction affecting mankind isn’t serious mental illness-but...”
– Carl Jung
“We are born alone and we die alone, in between we have to cheat ourselves out of...”
– Robert Lenkiewicz, Artist, 1993
“Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of...”
– Christopher Hitchens The Atlantic April 2003
March 2008
73 posts
“The punishment we suffer, if we refuse to take an interest in matters of...”
– Plato
“A book is a mirror: if an ass peers in do not expect an apostle to look out”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Poverty is a shame amongst men, an imprisonment of the mind, a vexation of every...”
– Sir Walter Raleigh
“Much would have been gained if through timely advice young people could have...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“The art of life is the avoidance of the unattainable”
– Hector Hugh Monro ‘Saki’
“I have seen flowers come in stony places / And kind things done by men with ugly...”
– John Masefield
“Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at...”
– Gandhi
“There are good men, and the quality they possess is not a matter of opinion”
– Mathew Parris
“If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. If you cannot demonstrate...”
– William Godwin
“There is no proposition at present apprehended to be true so valuable as to...”
– William Godwin
“I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the...”
– Ecclesiastes
“Although modern bullets cost only a few cents to manufacture and are so...”
– Ivan Illitch
“When so many are lonely it would be selfish to be lonely alone”
– Tennessee Williams
“If you can make a perfect cup of tea you can do anything”
– Terence Stamp