Quote (#534)

Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion has no hold on
the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early
education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better
enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
- Plato

Action is character
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Life is a moderately good play
with a badly written third act."
- Truman Capote

"I have opinions of my own -- strong
opinions -- but I don't always agree with them."
- George Bush

"Nobody believes the official spokesman...
but everybody trusts an unidentified source."
- Ron Nesen

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor
of the idea that life is serious."
- Brendan Gill

Quotaria

"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
- Laurence J. Peter

"There are three classes of
men; lovers of wisdom, lovers
of honor, and lovers of gain."
- Plato

"Entertainment and art are not isolated."
- Martin Kippenberger

"Great art picks up
where nature ends."
- Marc Chagall

"I never believed in Santa Claus
because I knew no white dude would
come into my neighborhood after dark."
- Dick Gregory

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading
something worthwhile. The first discipline of
education must therefore be to refuse resolutely
to feed the mind with canned chatter."
- Aleister Crowley

Quotaria

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if
not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age."
- Lucille Ball

I think we dream so we don't have to be
apart so long. If we're in each other's
dreams, we can play together all night.
- Bill Watterson

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day,
you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
- Bill Watterson

"One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end
up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato

People everywhere confuse what they
read in newspapers with news.
- AJ Liebling