The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote
During World War II, code-talkers referred to submarines and fighter planes using the Navajo for "iron fish" and "hummingbird," respectively. #Factoids
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. ~ Honore de Balzac #quote
If you find a four-leaf clover, it means you have entirely too much time on your hands. #OneLiners
I never worry about action, but only inaction. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky #quote, The House of the Dead
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. ~ Joseph Conrad #quote
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~ Evelyn Waugh #quote
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~ Douglas Adams #quote, "Last Chance to See"
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintains - the equality of all men. ~ Ignazio Silone #quote
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. ~ Bob Dylan #quote
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote
Wise leaders generally have wise counsellors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. ~ Diogenes #quote
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower #quote, Inaugural Address
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true. ~ David Cronenberg #quote
No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. ~ Isaac Rosenfeld #quote
When you’re eight years old nothing is your business. ~ Lenny Bruce #quote
60% of Roomba robotic vacuum owners give their Roomba a name. #Factoids
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein #quote
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths. ~ Albert Camus #quote
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. ~ G.K. Chesterton #quote
If you think you are getting too much government these days, just be happy that you're not getting all you are paying for. #OneLiners
Next to Trúc Bach Lake in Hanoi, where John McCain's plane crashed in 1967, there is a statue commemorating the capture of "John McCan [sic], the famous air pirate". #Factoids
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. ~ Unknown #quote
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. ~ John Kammer #quote
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ~ Rene Descartes #quote
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in. ~ Bob Dylan #quote, It's Alright, Ma
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. – Søren Kierkegaard #quote
If you are willing to admit you are wrong when you are wrong, you are all right. #OneLiners
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion. ~ Unknown #quote
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pyjamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation...Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions. ~ Susan Cain #quote
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~ Epictetus #quote
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ~ Ogden Nash #quote
He who laughs, lasts. ~ Mary Pettibone Poole #quote
The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. ~ Fidel Castro #quote
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... ~ Leonard Cohen #quote
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. ~ W.C. Fields #quote
Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. ~ Jerry Pannullo #quote
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ~ Truman Capote #quote
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ Garrison Keillor #quote
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ~ Albert Camus #quote
The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ~ Edgar Allan Poe #quote
These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze. ~ Albert Camus #quote
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ~ Dave Barry #quote
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ~ Salvador Dali #quote
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. ~ H.L. Mencken #quote
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. ~ Noam Chomsky #quote
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte #quote
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying. ~ Bob Dylan #quote, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. ~ Sir Winston Churchill #quote
A sense of humour... is needed armour. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~ Hugh Sidey #quote
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. ~ Unknown #quote
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ~ Albert Camus #quote
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ~ Abraham Cowley #quote
We live in a rainbow of chaos. ~ Paul Cezanne #quote
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