more musings

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
- Alfred North Whitehead

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
- Norman Mailer

more words to live by

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
- David Coblitz

more quoteables

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
- Fran Lebowitz

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey

Quoteables

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
- Jef Mallett
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- Peter McWilliams

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
- L. M. Boyd
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony

truth

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop

more quotes i liked.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- Robert Anton Wilson

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide