I collect quotations, and keep them here for my own amusement. Here they are:
- “To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
-- Confucius - “There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order.”
-- Ed Howdershelt - “The first step to understanding is to call things by their right names.”
-- Lu Tse - “The world is too much with us; late and soon; Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
-- William Wordsworth - “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions”
-- Luke (12:15) - “Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.”
-- Amos Bronson Alcott - “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
-- R. Buckminster Fuller - “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
-- Charles Bukowski (Betting on the Muse) - “I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes - “The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci - “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
-- William James - “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
-- Sinclair Lewis - “To me the life of the businessman who eats his breakfast early in the morning, catches a train for the city, stays there in the dingy, dusty atmosphere of the commercial world, and goes back to his house in the evening, and after supper to sleep, is worse than the life of the galley slave. His chains are golden instead of iron.”
-- Oscar Wilde - “There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.”
-- Emile Chartier - “And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?”
-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:44) - “Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.”
-- G. K. Chesterton - “To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.”
-- Bertrand Russell - “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
-- Henry David Thoreau - “Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.”
-- Jacques Cousteau - “Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.”
-- Revelation 7:3 - “The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
-- Edward, Duke of Windsor - “Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.”
-- French Proverb - “A hungry man is not a free man.”
-- Adlai Stevenson - “I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.”
-- Madame Benoit - “A good meal ought to begin with hunger.”
-- French Proverb