a few quotations

[plural]

War is God's way
of teaching Americans
geography.
-Ambrose Bierce

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
-Blaise Pascal

An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Won't you come into the garden?
I would like my roses to see you.
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan



Necessity is the plea
for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants;
it is the creed of slaves.
-William Pitt

All are lunatics,
but he who can analyze his delusion
is called a philosopher.
-Ambrose Bierce

The mind commands the body
and the body obeys.
The mind commands itself
and finds resistance.
-St. Augustine

The only difference between me
and a madman is that I'm not mad.
-Salvador Dali

I have learnt silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind;
yet strange,
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
-Kahlil Gibran

When one has
too great a dread
of what is impending,
one feels some relief
when the trouble has come.
-Joseph Joubert

God Himself,
sir,
does not propose to judge a man
until his life is over.
Why should you and I?
-Samuel Johnson

All the world's a stage
and most of us are
desperately unrehearsed.
-Sean O'Casey

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment
of the rights of the people by the gradual
and silent encroachments of those in power
than by violent and sudden usurpations.
-James Madison

It is dangerous to be right
when the government is wrong.
-Voltaire

Millions long for immortality
who do not know what to do
with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-Susan Ertz

I was court-martialled in my absence,
and sentenced to death in my absence,
so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
-Brendan Francis Behan

After I'm dead
I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument
than why I have one.
-Cato the Elder

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much;
if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
-Mark Twain

The unluckiest insolvent in the world
is the man whose expenditure of speech
is too great for his income of ideas.
-Christopher Morley