Showing posts with label Alexis de Tocqueville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexis de Tocqueville. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Quote (#567)

"Give me a museum and I’ll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"There are many men of principle in both parties
in America, but there is no party of principle."
- Alexis de Tocqueville

"If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words,
'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult
to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death."
- Eddie Izzard

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our
parents, and the second half by our children."
- Clarence Darrow

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that
my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
- Joan Rivers

"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is ‘God is crying’. And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is ‘Probably because of something you did’."
- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Quotaria

"Forgiveness is the key
to action and freedom."
- Hannah Arendt

"History is a gallery of pictures in which
there are few originals and many copies."
- Alexis de Tocqueville


"There is only one success - to be able
to spend your life in your own way."
- Christopher Morley

"When we try to pick out anything
by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe."
- John Muir

"Nature is the master of talents;
genius is the master of nature."
- J. G. Holland


"In order to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan