Quotes

[Viewer]

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

 

[Viewer]

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

~ Douglas Adams

 

[biancataylor]

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

~Isaiah Berlin~

 

[biancataylor]

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

~Jeremy Bentham~

 

[biancataylor]

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

~Anacharsis~

 

[biancataylor]

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg~

 

[biancataylor]

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

~Henri Frederic Amiel~

 

[biancataylor]

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

~Francis Bacon~

 

[Viewer]

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

 

[Viewer]

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

~ E. L. Doctorow

 

[Viewer]

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

~ Oscar Wilde

 

[biancataylor]

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

~Erma Bombeck~

 

[Viewer]

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

~ George Matthew Adams

 

[biancataylor]

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

~Frank A. Clark~

 

[biancataylor]

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

~Bill Cosby~

 

[biancataylor]

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

~Benjamin Franklin~

 

[Scenicdrive]

Do you not see how mighty is Goddess Aphrodite? She sows and gives that love from which all we upon this earth are born.

~Empedocles~

 

[biancataylor]

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

~Saint Thomas Aquinas~

 

[Viewer]

Love is a rose
but you better not pick it
It only grows when it's on the vine.
A handful of thorns and
you'll know you've missed it
You lose your love
when you say the word "mine".

~ Neil Young

 

[biancataylor]

Get down or lay down

~Beanie S~