QOTD category archive

Learned Hand:

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

Havelock Ellis, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

Niels Bohr, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

Denis Diderot, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Geoff Nunberg:

People who level the charge of class warfare never go the logical next step to extol the virtues of class cooperation.

Sting, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

Jimmy Carter, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

John Glenn, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

Bud Zimmerman (personal communication):

Did you ever see a smiling jogger?

Henri-Frederic Amiel from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

A belief is not true because it is useful.

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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694 – 1773, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Susan:

I don’t know what I should do; it’s easier to know what you should do.

Douglas Engelbart

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

William Strunk, Jr.:

If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Mikhail Gorbachev:

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.

Davy Crockett:

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

Thor Heyerdahl:

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.

Sophia Loren, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.

La Rouchefoucauld, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Bob Cesca:

I wish there were things I could unremember.