Fortune Quote #3843

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let
him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a
fool. -- The Dhammapada, Chapter V

Fortune Quote #3842

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -- John
Ruskin

Fortune Quote #3841

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution
which grant[s] a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents. -- James Madison, 1794

Fortune Quote #3840

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the
tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your
livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of
the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But
control of the mind is better and more difficult. -- Thayumanavar

Fortune Quote #3839

I tell you that I'm not dictatorial, I'm not intolerant, I'm not
overpowering! You're all wrong, wrong, wrong, I tell you! I'm the most
relaxed and understanding of people! None of you, I insist, must ever say
I'm dictatorial again! -- Neville Chamberlain

Fortune Quote #3838

Unless we, the free democracies of the world... are prepared to stand
together and to take the same risks for justice, peace, and freedom that
others are prepared to take for the fuits of aggression, then our cause is
lost---and the gangsters will inherit the earth. -- Lady Violet
Bonham Carter

Fortune Quote #3837

No government can change men's souls. The souls of men change
governments. -- Ronald Cartland

Fortune Quote #3836

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. -- Mark Twain

Fortune Quote #3835

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own
ignorance. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3834

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments
against your views better than your opponents do. -- Milton Friedman

Fortune Quote #3833

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. -- Revelation 3:19

Fortune Quote #3832

A good sentence is worth a thousand pictures. -- Graeme Segal

Fortune Quote #3831

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense
that everything is a miracle. -- Paramahansa Yogananda

Fortune Quote #3830

Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts
his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. -- Proverbs 17:28

Fortune Quote #3829

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,
just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. --
Revelation 3:21

Fortune Quote #3828

No effort is complete without prayer -- without definite recognition that
the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind
it. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Fortune Quote #3827

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned
the day before was wrong. -- Bill Vaughan

Fortune Quote #3826

It may be observed that in this book... the form "dwarves" is used,
although the dictionaries tell us that the plural of "dwarf" is "dwarfs".
It should be "dwarrows" (or "dwerrows"), if singular and plural had each
gone its own way down the years, as have "man" and "men", or "goose"
and "geese". But we no longer speak of a dwarf as often as we do of a man,
or even of a goose, and memories have not been fresh enough among Men to
keep hold of a special plural for a race now abandoned to folk-tales, where
at least a shadow of truth is preserved, or at last to nonsense-stories in
which they have become mere figures of fun. -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The
Lord of the Rings, Appendix F

Fortune Quote #3825

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build
one. -- Lyndon Johnson

Fortune Quote #3824

People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great
certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid
much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and
nothing about economics unhesitatingly declare that pharmaceutical drugs
cost too much. Maybe all this is a product of the "self-esteem" taught in
our schools, instead of the academic subjects in which American children
trail children from other countries. -- Thomas Sowell

Fortune Quote #3823

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies
between analogies. -- Stefan Banach

Fortune Quote #3822

The best part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being
either proven right or pleasantly surprised. -- George Will

Fortune Quote #3821

One good thing about being a man is that men don't have to talk to each
other. -- Peter Cocotas

Fortune Quote #3820

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my
religion. -- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #3819

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of
Responsibilities. -- Bill Maher

Fortune Quote #3818

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? -- Groucho Marx

Fortune Quote #3817

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper
images of the garbage. -- George Carlin

Fortune Quote #3816

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter. -- Samuel
Beckett

Fortune Quote #3815

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to
smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary
Ellen Kelly

Fortune Quote #3814

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then
a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." --
Charlie Brown, "Peanuts" [Charles Schulz]

Fortune Quote #3813

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe
what you just said. -- William Buckley, Jr.

Fortune Quote #3812

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Fortune Quote #3811

Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.
-- Charles J. Nalin