Quotes

I love quotes. And I don't believe I've ever put any up on the blog. I really, really hate it when people start sentences with "and." Or when they put final punctuation outside of quotation marks. But I digress. Here are some good quotes:

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
- Marquis de Lafayette

Embrace this right now life while it's dripping, while the flavors are excellently woesome. Take your bites with bravery and boldness since the learning and the growing are here in these times, these exact right nows. Capture these times. Hold and kiss them because it will soon be very different.
- Jill Scott

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
- A. A. Milne

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
- William Wordsworth

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
- Carl Schurz

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
- Edward Thomas

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- W. H. Auden

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
- Stella Adler

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
- Maureen Dowd

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E. B. White

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
- Janet Reno

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
- M. C. Escher

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
- Pearl S. Buck

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
- Albert Camus

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
- M. C. Escher

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- Italo Calvino

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
- George Bernard Shaw

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
- Erich Fromm

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Jonathan Swift

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- Anais Nin

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Sigmund Freud

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
- Willa Cather

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
- Che Guevara

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
- M. C. Escher

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
- Leon Trotsky

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
- Federico Fellini

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
- Joel Hildebrand

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
- Marshall McLuhan

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
- Leon Trotsky

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
- Steve Wozniak

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
- Marquis de Lafayette

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- Emiliano Zapata

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
- Aldous Huxley

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
- Mark Twain

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
- Heinrich Heine

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
- Leon Trotsky

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
- Patrick Henry