Showing posts with label William Penn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Penn. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotaria

"A writer is a person for whom writing is
more difficult than it is for other people."
- Thomas Mann


"Cynics regarded everybody as equally
corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody
as equally corrupt, except themselves."
- Robert Anton Wilson

"Cynically speaking, one could say that it
is true to life to be cynical about it."
- Paul Tillich


"Democracy is a process by which
people are free to choose the man
who will get the blame."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Passion is the mob of the man, that
commits a riot upon his reason."
- William Penn


"Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
- P. J. O'Rourke

Friday, February 27, 2009

Quotaria

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow men."
- Herman Melville

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Time is what we want most,
but what we use worst."
- William Penn

The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius

Once a word has been allowed to
escape, it cannot be recalled.
- Horace

It is only the great men who are truly obscene.
If they had not dared to be obscene, they could
never have dared to be great.
- Havelock Ellis