QOTD category archive

Sophocles:

All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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Mark Twain:

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Marcus Aurelius:

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Henry Steele Commager, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn’t foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

Ambrose Bierce:

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Voltaire:

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Doris Lessing, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.

John Dewey, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Clarence Darrow:

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Lewis Mumford, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

Clifford Stoll:

The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.

John Kenneth Galbraith, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Oscar Wilde, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Isaac Asimov:

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Lenny Bruce, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

George Carlin, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Lin Yutang, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Susan Sarandon:

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Relax, concentrate, love those Phillies.

Phillies 2, Reds 0.

Winston Churchill:

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.