Showing posts with label Edmund Burke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmund Burke. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

"An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin


"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't
either run from or fight its enemies is lunch."
- Michael Friedman


"Colors are the smiles of nature."
- Leigh Hunt


Humankind cannot stand
very much reality.
- TS Eliot

"Bad weather always looks
worse through a window."
- Tom Lehrer

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl
kills the first woman she meets and then teams up
with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from
their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened
her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
- Edmund Burke

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that
we do not see the ones which open for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell

"A good conscience is
a continual Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is really work unless you
would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie

The advantage of a bad memory is
that one enjoys several times the
same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche