Quote of the day/August 2003

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August 2003

  • "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." ~ Chester Bowles
  • "I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it." ~ Clarence Darrow
  • "Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it." ~ The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
  • "He caught glimpses of everything, but saw nothing." ~ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  • "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Emma by Jane Austen
  • "The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country." ~ John Mitchell
  • "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." ~ Elvis Presley
  • "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~ Aesop
  • "There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience." ~ Hartley Shawcross
  • "I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one." ~ Marilyn Monroe
  • "I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him." ~ Galileo Galilei
  • "As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk like that." ~ Frank Hague
  • "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." ~ Adlai Stevenson
  • "The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy." ~ Emo Phillips
  • "A man said to the Universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the Universe, 'the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'" ~ Stephen Crane
  • "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." ~ Andrew Jackson
  • "When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly." ~ Donald Douglas
  • "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." ~ Edsger Dijkstra
  • "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." ~ Aristotle
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