"A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or of Humdrum?"
--Benjamin Disraeli, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
(I'm on the side of more humdrum.)
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
“What year did Jesus think it was?”
― George Carlin
"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."
Gerald Good
“I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
@edgarblythe,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"---that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Keats
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Yehudi Menuhin
“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus
@edgarblythe,
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville
"Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell."
Shana Alexander
“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”
― Lily Tomlin
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell
"Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners."
Laurence Sterne
“I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.”
― Shelley Winters
“wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone”
― Horace
@edgarblythe,
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. —Lao-Tzu
@suresh021,
The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind.
-Author Unknown
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
Nelson Mandela
