Quotations Set 36
- The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
- A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. - James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)
- A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke, preacher and author (1810-1888)
- If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds. - Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens van der Post, explorer and writer (1906-1996)
- The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. - Antoine de Rivarol, epigrammatist (1753-1801)
- To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. - Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
- They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now. - Bob Monkhouse, comedian (1928-2003)
- What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
- Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are - chaff and grain together - certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. - George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
- Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy. - Thomas Merton, writer (1915-1968)
- Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. - Murray Edelman, professor, author (1919-2001)
- It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. - Thomas Brackett Reed, politician (1839-1902)
- After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains. - Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)
- To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. - Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
- They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Adams (1838-1918)
- I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. - Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
- Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert, moralist and essayist (1754-1824)
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