Quotes without Commentary

• Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian. - --Heywood Broun
• There is no sense in having an argument with a man so stupid he doesn't know you have the better of him. - --John Raper
• I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. - --Steve McQueen
• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. - --Elbert Hubbard
• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - --Mark Twain
• Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - --Stephen Leacock
• Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from. - --John Erskine
• It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. - --Harry S. Truman
• A wise man will make more opportunities that he finds. - --Francis Bacon
• I shall pass through this world but once; any good things, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, or dumb animal, let me do it now. Let me not deter it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - --John Galsworthy
• To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. - --Mark Twain
• The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. - --Somerset Maugham
• The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved. - --Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. - --Carl Schurz
• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. - --Abraham Joshua Heschel
• The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. - --Oliver Goldsmith
• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. - --Seneca (st century)
• The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. - --Henry Becque
• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never si - --Mark Twain
• Never do card tricks for the boys you play poker with. - --American Proverb
• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - --Winston Churchill
• Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. - --Ernest Benn