Quotes (#480)

"We learn from experience that men
never learn anything from experience."
- George Bernard Shaw

Great ideas have been lost because the people
who had them were afraid of being laughed at.
- Roosevelt Garner

Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"
I’m sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it.
- Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)

But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61)

Each child is an adventure into a better life — an
opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–78)

"Children need models
rather than critics."
- Joseph Joubert

Quotes

"The right to be heard does not
automatically include the right
to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey

"Painting: The art of protecting
flat surfaces from the weather
and exposing them to the critic."
- Ambrose Bierce

"Bureaucracy defends the status
quo long past the time when the
quo has lost its status."
- Laurence J. Peter

If we were to wake up some morning and
find that everyone was the same race,
creed and color, we would find some
other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those
he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu

If there were no God, there
would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton

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

Quotes

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and
joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
- Joseph Wood Krutch

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration
and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there
is less cleaning up to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut

The more you find out about the world, the
more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
- Bill Nye

The penalty for success is to be bored
by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the
abyss also looks into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The right to be heard does not automatically
include the right to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey