Showing posts with label Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Show all posts

Friday, April 17, 2009

Quotaria

"A verbal contract isn't worth
the paper it's written on."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"You forget that the fruits belong to all
and that the land belongs to no one."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Small opportunities are often the
beginning of great enterprises."
- Demosthenes


"Half the lies they tell
about me aren't true."
- Yogi Berra

"Common sense is instinct,
and enough of it is genius."
- Josh Billings


"Late to bed and late to wake
will keep you long on money
and short on mistakes."
- Aaron McGruder

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Quotaria

"To die completely, a person must not only
forget but be forgotten, and he who is not
forgotten is not dead." - Samuel Butler

Never moon a werewolf.
- Mike Binder


People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Death is a low chemical trick played
on everybody except sequoia trees.
— J.J. Furnas


The strongest is never strong enough to
be always the master, unless he transforms
strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Money is like manure. You have to
spread it around or it smells.
- Jean Paul Getty

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Quotes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness
is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi

It is too difficult to think nobly when
one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My formula for success is rise
early, work late, and strike oil.
- Jean Paul Getty

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find
it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
- Sam Ewing

I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei

"There is no moral precept that does not
have something inconvenient about it."
- Denis Diderot