It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
- Wernher von Braun

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht

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100th post - yay! :-) a special post for me...





So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
- Dale Carnegie

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
- Rebecca West

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Richard Feynman

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
- John Cage

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
- Noel Coward

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."
- St. Francis de Sales

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
- Voltaire

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
- Sir Arnold Bax

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
- Lewis Thomas

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
- Anatole France