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ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. -John A. Shedd You
must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your
art of war. Forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names. Imagination
is more important than knowledge. Moral
indignation is jealousy with a halo. The
optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist fears this is true. Never
let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right! Being
right too soon is socially unacceptable. It
has yet to be proven that intelligence has survival value. A
flung stone has always been a fool's favorite means of putting himself on
a level with the wise.
Dullard:
Some one who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the
entry, reads it, then closes the book. A
person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart. What
can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who
gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his
lunacy?
-George Orwell (1903-1950) There
are no circumstances under which a state is justified in placing its
welfare ahead of mine. A
stupid man cannot learn, an ignorant man has not had the opportunity to
learn, but a foolish man is able to learn, has the opportunity, and does
not do it. Losers
don't forget as fast as winners. When
you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on
a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. I
have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. What
matters in history was not what men thought, but what they felt. Nothing
is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. The
best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is
based on the talent for friendship. I
don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. All
animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Love
is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without
love. In
the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made
School Boards. The
whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Depend
upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them
that is not disagreeable to him. The
true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants
woman, as the most dangerous plaything. I
haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. If
we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain,
its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were
there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species
might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his
disposal to destroy it. Run
to the bookstore and get that book. If the school board tells you you
can't read it, it's probably what you need. That
man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no
other creature has yet contested this claim. There
is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a
courtship; only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over
and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers
are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much
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