A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson
"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.
~ Grandma Moses
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~ Albert Einstein
Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young
"I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
~ Michael Jordan
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha
@edgarblythe,
“We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.” - E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe
@edgarblythe,
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
Daniel Boone
"All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."
~ Louis Armstrong (aka Satchmo)
Last words of Pancho Villa
"Don't let it end this way. Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa
Another fine mess you've gotten me into.
Stan Laurel
@edgarblythe,
I believe it was the fat guy that said that, not Stan LAurel
@farmerman,
"They say that if you watch TV for six hours a day, you will die five years early. Itll just be my luck that thats when theyll finally come up with some good programs"
My own musings
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
I believe it was the fat guy that said that, not Stan LAurel
Ollie said it in the films. Laurel was the creative mind behind the team. He put those words in the fat one's mouth.
@edgarblythe,
now you are picking nits.
