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Comment# · Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Comment# · Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Comment# · Fair (2718 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in
Art and Literature and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (767 ratings) · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in
Law and Politics
Comment# · Fair (380 ratings) · submitted 1999
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
Comment# · Fair (773 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap -- even men who hate baths.
Comment# · Fair (751 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in
Work and Recreation
Comment# · Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Comment# · Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Comment# · Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Comment# · Fair (648 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in
Vice and Virtue
Comment# · Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Comment# · Fair (789 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Ron Leemans
Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.
Comment# · Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (653 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
