Quotes

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"I must study politics and war that
my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy."
- John Adams

A good many young writers make the mistake of
enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope,
big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner

I do not believe in
the creed professed
by the Jewish Church,
by the Roman Church,
by the Greek Church,
by the Turkish Church,
by the Protestant Church,
nor by any church that I know of.
My own mind is my own church.
- Thomas Paine

There is no passion like that of
a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau

People are difficult to govern because
they have too much knowledge.
- Lao-Tzu

Quotaria

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes
out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow
enobled and no-one dares criticize it. - Pierre Gallois

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed
to improve the quality of life, please press three."
- Alice Kahn

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth
exactly reversed, when they believed that the
stars controlled the destinies of men. The time
may come when men control the destinies of stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the
sweetness of the rose depends upon the
name it bears. Things are not only what
they are. They are, in very important
respects, what they seem to be.
- Hubert H. Humphrey

In my many years I have come to a
conclusion that one useless man is
a shame, two is a law firm, and three
or more is a congress.
- John Adams