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 beginning of knowledge is the discovery
of something we do not understand."
- Frank Herbert

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than
a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't
conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."
- Bill Vaughan

"Golf is played by twenty million mature American
men whose wives think they are out having fun."
- Jim Bishop

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.
- Graf Fito

In the land of the blind, the
one-eyed man is stoned to death.
- Joan D. Vinge

"War is a series of catastrophes
that results in a victory."
- Georges Clemenceau