Showing posts with label Joseph Wood Krutch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Wood Krutch. Show all posts

Saturday, January 03, 2009

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