Showing posts with label George Wallace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Wallace. Show all posts

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotes

For where the instrument of intelligence
is added to brute power and evil will,
mankind is powerless in its own defense.
- Dante Alighieri

"Why does the Air Force need expensive new
bombers? Have the people we've been bombing
over the years been complaining?"
- George Wallace

The first law of dietetics seems to be:
if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
- Isaac Asimov

An amateur is someone who supports himself
with outside jobs which enable him to paint.
A professional is someone whose wife works
to enable him to paint.
- Ben Shahn

In times of rapid change, experience
could be your worst enemy.
- Jean Paul Getty

"The things we know best are the
things we haven't been taught."
- Marquis de Vauvenargues