Social Medicine quotes
Social Medicine
As one who long in city spent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
Milton
Paradise Lost
Fields and trees teach me nothing, but people in a city do.
Socrates
No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity
in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington
And who are the greater criminals- those who sell the instruments
of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Robert E. Sherwood
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am
large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorned by
statesmen and philosophers and divines. Emerson
Essays:"Self-Reliance"
Cynic- A man who knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing. Oscar Wild
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all
of the time. A. Lincoln
There are two trageties in life. One is not to get your heart's
desire, the other is to get it. Bernard Shaw
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not
bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise
himself. George Santayana
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to
run away, it's best to let him run. A. Lincoln
If we only knew what it were about, perhaps we could get about it
better.
The better part of valor is discretion.
Shakespeare
Henry IV
Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
One need only grow old to become gentler in one's judgments. I see
no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.
It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error
lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the
depths, and to search for it is not given to everyone.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of
ability to be ungrateful.
A man's manners are the mirror in which he shows his portrait.
It is not enough to know, we must also apply; it is not enough to
will, we must also do.
It is not worthwhile to do anything for the world that we have with
us, as the existing order may in a moment pass away. It is for the
past and future that we must work: for the past, to acknowledge
it's merits; for the future,to try to increase it's value.
Character in matters great and small consist in a man steadily
pursuing the things of which he feels himself capable.
Who is the happiest person? He whose nature asks for nothing that
the world does not wish and use.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Goethe
Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking in the
same direction. Saint Exupery
The greatest fault is to imagine that you have none.
Peace is not needing to know what will happen next.
Because hate is legislated I need love. Walter Benton
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.
Loniliness brings out love - everything is more real - attempt to
love everything just so it is alive. Nietzsche
The world is a comedy to those who feel and a tragety to those who
think. Shakesphere
Those who rest, rot. Arther Fiedler
At bottom, these simpletons want a single thing: that nobody should
hurt them. Thus they try to please and gratify everyone. This
however is cowardice even if it can be called virtue. Virture to
them is what makes tame. Nietzsche
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. And nothing
ain't worth nothing but it's free. Kris Kristoferson
Hypocracy is the oil of civilization. It keeps people from rubbing
together so hard that their skins fall off.
Doing a good job around here is like wetting your pants in a dark
suit. It gives you a warm feeling but nobody notices
Murphy's Law:
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you expect.
And if anything can go wrong- it will
at the worst possible moment!
Murphy's Axiom: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because
fools are so ingenious.
World Problems = To Many People
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that
they escaped teething. Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calender
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
Shakesphere
Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visons.
Old Testament
Joel II,28
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and
self-contained. Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Beauty is a short lived rein. Socrates
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most
useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice
Do you suit your mind to your surroundings or your surroundings to
your mind? Kirkegard
Does our intuitional knowledge conform to objects or do objects
conform to intuitional knowledge. Kant
If the doors of perception were clensed everything would appear as
it is, infinite. William Blake
I saw with open eyes
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops
For people to eat,
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Street.
Ralph Hodgeson
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
Things do not change; we change. Thoreau, "Walden"
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Shakespear
"King Lear"
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool-maker, Staker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight-handler
Stormy, husky, brawling, City of Big Shoulders.
Carl Sandburg
"Chicago"
Commuter- one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.
E.B.White
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the
grease.
Josh Billings
But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.
Issac Bickerstaffe
When we have not what we like, we must like what we have.
Bussy Rabutin
Lordlings and witlings not a few,
Incapable of doing aught,
Yet ill at ease with nought to do.
Walter Scott
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste
death but once. Shakesphere
"Julius Caesar"
A conservitive is a man who is to cowardly to fight and to fat to
run. Elbert Hubbard
A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your
person, a creditor owns your dignity, and can belabour that.
Victor Hugo
"Les Miserables"
My creed is this:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. Socrates
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance
it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Adams
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for
their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A
man can not be to careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me is as good
as belongs to you. Walt Whitman
"Song of Myself"
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk. Thoreau
"Journal" Nov 1850
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas M. Butler
Familiarity breeds contempt- and children. Mark Twain
And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look
forward to with hope. Robert Frost
The Death of the Hired Man"
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make
a better mouse trap, than his neighbor, though he builds his house
in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Emerson
Give fools their gold, amd knaves their power;
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree,is more than all.
Whittier
Who ever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to
grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would
deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his
country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Swift
"Gulliver's Travels"
The greatest fault, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Carlyle
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is
unhappy in it's own way. Tolstsy
Jupiter has loaded us with two wallets: the one, filled with our
own faults, he has placed at our backs; the other heavy with the
faults of others, he has hung before us. Phaedrus
There is such a thing as a man being to proud to fight.
Woodrow Wilson
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty
casks of vinegar. Henry IV of France
The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel, and said,
"What a dust do I raise!" Francis Bacon
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over the harbor a city
on silent haunches
and then, moves on.
Carl Sandburg
"Fog"
Let the fool be made servicable according to his folly.
Joseph Conrad
I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with
polished manners and fine sence yet wanting sensibility) the man
who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Cowper
Against a foe I can myself defend, - But Heaven protect me from a
blundering friend! D'Arcy W. Thompson
Beware the fury of a patient man. Dryden
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible for talent is genius. Amiel
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Gift, like genius, I often think means only an infinite capacity
for taking pains. Jane E. Hopkins
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be
thought to be. Socrates
The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.
Bernard Shaw
"Maxims for Revolutionists"
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, an' do
it first. E. N. Westcott
Be good and you will be lonsome. Mark Twain
Here's to you, as good as you are, and here's to me, as bad as I
am; But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I'm as good as you
are, as bad as I am. An old Scotch Toast
Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.
Thoreau
"Journal" 2/3/1860
Government, even in it's best state, is but a necessary evil; in
it's worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
"Common Sense"
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog.
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson
Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious
conservative agent. William James
We must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
To others at the signing of
the Declaration of Independence.
Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only
worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
R. G. Ingersoll
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it
than to consume wealth without producing it. Bernard Shaw
"Candida"
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a
rat. Harry Emerson Fosdick
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there
is such a thing as physical mortality. Herbert Spencer
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is
in his heart. Franklin
"Poor Richard's Almanac" 1733
I'm larnnin' one thing good. Learnin' it all a time, every day. If
your in trouble, or hurt or need- go to the poor people. They're
the only ones that'll help- the only ones. John Steinbeck
"The Grapes of Wrath"
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!!
Be a hero in strife!
Longfellow
"A Psalm of Life"
Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human
freedom. Herbert Spencer
"Social Statistics"
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Brander Matthews
" Epigrams "
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his
daily bread and butter. H.W. Van Loon
"The Story of Mankind"
History is bunk. What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you
in.
Robert Frost
"The Death of the Hired Man"
It takes a heap o'livin in a house t' make it home
A heap o'sun an shadder, an'ye sometimes have t' roam
Afore ye really 'preciate the things ye lef' behind,
An' hunger fer 'em somehow, with 'em allus on yer mind.
E. A. Guest
" Home "
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. The
granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic,
and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their side. The great
companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a
thin line. John Steinbeck
"The Grapes of Wrath"
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
J.A. Froude
"Oceana"
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger
wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Bernard Shaw
"Maxims for Revolution"
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have
injured. Tacitus
"Arricola"
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
Plato
"Gorgias"
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than
plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things,
integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Bacon
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Burns
The best sause for food is hunger.
Socrates
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A.B. Alcot
"Table Talk"
I honestly believe it iz better tew know nothing than tew know what
ain't so. Josh Billings
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Gray
Where it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess. S. Johnson
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. C.C. Colton
"Lacon"
Imitation is suicide. Emmerson
"Essays: Self- Reliance"
And the man who plants cabbages imitates too!
Austin Dobson
"Ballad of Imitation"
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Ibsen
"The World as Will & Idea"
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Kipling
"The Winners"
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to
be crowded on a velvet cushion. Thoreau
"Walden"
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a
great mistake. Schopenhauer
"The World as Will and Idea"
I swear I think now that everything without exception has an
eternal soul! The trees have, rooted in the ground! The weeds of
the sea have! The animals! Walt Whitman
Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutor'd mind sees God in clouds or
hears him in the wind. Pope
"Essay on Man"
The only good Indian is a dead Indian. General P.H. Sheridan
To see the world in a grain of sand.
And a heaven in a wild flower,
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Blake
Thou O God doest sell us all good things for the price of our
labor.
Leonardo De Vinci
A New Day
This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to
use as I will. I can waste it- or use it for good, but what I do
today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for
it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in
it's place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be
gain, and not loss; good ,and not evil; success, and not failure;
in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it.
Dr. Heartstill Wilson
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry celler.
T.S. Eliot
" The Hollow Men "
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like
Whales.
Oliver Goldsmith to Dr. Johnson 1773
There's not a joy the world can give like it takes away.
Byron
"Stanzas for Music"
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Anon "Good and Bad" 1900c
Tis with our judgement as our watches, none go just alike, yet each
believes his own. Pope
"Essay on Criticism"
The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a
state of contraction. Dr. Henry Gibbons
"Definition of a Kiss"
Remember: The scenery only changes for the lead dog.
The only person who behaves sensibly is my taylor. He takes new
measurements every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their
old measurements. George Bernard Shaw
The thing about inflation is that home owners can live in a more
expensive neighborhood without the hassle of moving.
I must have an immense quantity of mind. It takes so long to make
it up. Mark Twain
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.
Attorney: Someone who writes a 4 page document and calls it a
brief.
Experience is what enables you to reconize a mistake when you make
it again.
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to
travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing
anything. Charles Kuralt
My doctor takes no chances. Before operating on me, he gave me a
pre-surgery credit scan.
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. Mark Twain
It's amazing how important you become when you want a day off, and
how unimportant you are when you want a raise.
As one who long in city spent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
Milton
Paradise Lost
Fields and trees teach me nothing, but people in a city do.
Socrates
No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity
in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington
And who are the greater criminals- those who sell the instruments
of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Robert E. Sherwood
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am
large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adorned by
statesmen and philosophers and divines. Emerson
Essays:"Self-Reliance"
Cynic- A man who knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing. Oscar Wild
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all
of the time. A. Lincoln
There are two trageties in life. One is not to get your heart's
desire, the other is to get it. Bernard Shaw
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not
bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise
himself. George Santayana
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to
run away, it's best to let him run. A. Lincoln
If we only knew what it were about, perhaps we could get about it
better.
The better part of valor is discretion.
Shakespeare
Henry IV
Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
One need only grow old to become gentler in one's judgments. I see
no fault committed which I could not have committed myself.
It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error
lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the
depths, and to search for it is not given to everyone.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of
ability to be ungrateful.
A man's manners are the mirror in which he shows his portrait.
It is not enough to know, we must also apply; it is not enough to
will, we must also do.
It is not worthwhile to do anything for the world that we have with
us, as the existing order may in a moment pass away. It is for the
past and future that we must work: for the past, to acknowledge
it's merits; for the future,to try to increase it's value.
Character in matters great and small consist in a man steadily
pursuing the things of which he feels himself capable.
Who is the happiest person? He whose nature asks for nothing that
the world does not wish and use.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Goethe
Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking in the
same direction. Saint Exupery
The greatest fault is to imagine that you have none.
Peace is not needing to know what will happen next.
Because hate is legislated I need love. Walter Benton
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.
Loniliness brings out love - everything is more real - attempt to
love everything just so it is alive. Nietzsche
The world is a comedy to those who feel and a tragety to those who
think. Shakesphere
Those who rest, rot. Arther Fiedler
At bottom, these simpletons want a single thing: that nobody should
hurt them. Thus they try to please and gratify everyone. This
however is cowardice even if it can be called virtue. Virture to
them is what makes tame. Nietzsche
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. And nothing
ain't worth nothing but it's free. Kris Kristoferson
Hypocracy is the oil of civilization. It keeps people from rubbing
together so hard that their skins fall off.
Doing a good job around here is like wetting your pants in a dark
suit. It gives you a warm feeling but nobody notices
Murphy's Law:
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you expect.
And if anything can go wrong- it will
at the worst possible moment!
Murphy's Axiom: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because
fools are so ingenious.
World Problems = To Many People
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that
they escaped teething. Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calender
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
Shakesphere
Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visons.
Old Testament
Joel II,28
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and
self-contained. Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Beauty is a short lived rein. Socrates
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most
useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice
Do you suit your mind to your surroundings or your surroundings to
your mind? Kirkegard
Does our intuitional knowledge conform to objects or do objects
conform to intuitional knowledge. Kant
If the doors of perception were clensed everything would appear as
it is, infinite. William Blake
I saw with open eyes
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops
For people to eat,
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Street.
Ralph Hodgeson
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
Things do not change; we change. Thoreau, "Walden"
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Shakespear
"King Lear"
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool-maker, Staker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight-handler
Stormy, husky, brawling, City of Big Shoulders.
Carl Sandburg
"Chicago"
Commuter- one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.
E.B.White
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the
grease.
Josh Billings
But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.
Issac Bickerstaffe
When we have not what we like, we must like what we have.
Bussy Rabutin
Lordlings and witlings not a few,
Incapable of doing aught,
Yet ill at ease with nought to do.
Walter Scott
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste
death but once. Shakesphere
"Julius Caesar"
A conservitive is a man who is to cowardly to fight and to fat to
run. Elbert Hubbard
A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your
person, a creditor owns your dignity, and can belabour that.
Victor Hugo
"Les Miserables"
My creed is this:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. Socrates
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance
it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Adams
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for
their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A
man can not be to careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me is as good
as belongs to you. Walt Whitman
"Song of Myself"
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk. Thoreau
"Journal" Nov 1850
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas M. Butler
Familiarity breeds contempt- and children. Mark Twain
And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look
forward to with hope. Robert Frost
The Death of the Hired Man"
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make
a better mouse trap, than his neighbor, though he builds his house
in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Emerson
Give fools their gold, amd knaves their power;
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree,is more than all.
Whittier
Who ever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to
grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would
deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his
country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Swift
"Gulliver's Travels"
The greatest fault, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Carlyle
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is
unhappy in it's own way. Tolstsy
Jupiter has loaded us with two wallets: the one, filled with our
own faults, he has placed at our backs; the other heavy with the
faults of others, he has hung before us. Phaedrus
There is such a thing as a man being to proud to fight.
Woodrow Wilson
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty
casks of vinegar. Henry IV of France
The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel, and said,
"What a dust do I raise!" Francis Bacon
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over the harbor a city
on silent haunches
and then, moves on.
Carl Sandburg
"Fog"
Let the fool be made servicable according to his folly.
Joseph Conrad
I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with
polished manners and fine sence yet wanting sensibility) the man
who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Cowper
Against a foe I can myself defend, - But Heaven protect me from a
blundering friend! D'Arcy W. Thompson
Beware the fury of a patient man. Dryden
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible for talent is genius. Amiel
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Gift, like genius, I often think means only an infinite capacity
for taking pains. Jane E. Hopkins
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be
thought to be. Socrates
The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.
Bernard Shaw
"Maxims for Revolutionists"
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, an' do
it first. E. N. Westcott
Be good and you will be lonsome. Mark Twain
Here's to you, as good as you are, and here's to me, as bad as I
am; But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I'm as good as you
are, as bad as I am. An old Scotch Toast
Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.
Thoreau
"Journal" 2/3/1860
Government, even in it's best state, is but a necessary evil; in
it's worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
"Common Sense"
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog.
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson
Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious
conservative agent. William James
We must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
To others at the signing of
the Declaration of Independence.
Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only
worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
R. G. Ingersoll
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it
than to consume wealth without producing it. Bernard Shaw
"Candida"
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a
rat. Harry Emerson Fosdick
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there
is such a thing as physical mortality. Herbert Spencer
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is
in his heart. Franklin
"Poor Richard's Almanac" 1733
I'm larnnin' one thing good. Learnin' it all a time, every day. If
your in trouble, or hurt or need- go to the poor people. They're
the only ones that'll help- the only ones. John Steinbeck
"The Grapes of Wrath"
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!!
Be a hero in strife!
Longfellow
"A Psalm of Life"
Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human
freedom. Herbert Spencer
"Social Statistics"
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Brander Matthews
" Epigrams "
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his
daily bread and butter. H.W. Van Loon
"The Story of Mankind"
History is bunk. What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you
in.
Robert Frost
"The Death of the Hired Man"
It takes a heap o'livin in a house t' make it home
A heap o'sun an shadder, an'ye sometimes have t' roam
Afore ye really 'preciate the things ye lef' behind,
An' hunger fer 'em somehow, with 'em allus on yer mind.
E. A. Guest
" Home "
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. The
granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic,
and the pustules of pellagra swelled on their side. The great
companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a
thin line. John Steinbeck
"The Grapes of Wrath"
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
J.A. Froude
"Oceana"
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger
wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Bernard Shaw
"Maxims for Revolution"
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have
injured. Tacitus
"Arricola"
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
Plato
"Gorgias"
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than
plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things,
integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Bacon
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Burns
The best sause for food is hunger.
Socrates
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A.B. Alcot
"Table Talk"
I honestly believe it iz better tew know nothing than tew know what
ain't so. Josh Billings
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Gray
Where it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess. S. Johnson
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. C.C. Colton
"Lacon"
Imitation is suicide. Emmerson
"Essays: Self- Reliance"
And the man who plants cabbages imitates too!
Austin Dobson
"Ballad of Imitation"
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Ibsen
"The World as Will & Idea"
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Kipling
"The Winners"
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to
be crowded on a velvet cushion. Thoreau
"Walden"
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a
great mistake. Schopenhauer
"The World as Will and Idea"
I swear I think now that everything without exception has an
eternal soul! The trees have, rooted in the ground! The weeds of
the sea have! The animals! Walt Whitman
Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutor'd mind sees God in clouds or
hears him in the wind. Pope
"Essay on Man"
The only good Indian is a dead Indian. General P.H. Sheridan
To see the world in a grain of sand.
And a heaven in a wild flower,
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Blake
Thou O God doest sell us all good things for the price of our
labor.
Leonardo De Vinci
A New Day
This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to
use as I will. I can waste it- or use it for good, but what I do
today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for
it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in
it's place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be
gain, and not loss; good ,and not evil; success, and not failure;
in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it.
Dr. Heartstill Wilson
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry celler.
T.S. Eliot
" The Hollow Men "
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like
Whales.
Oliver Goldsmith to Dr. Johnson 1773
There's not a joy the world can give like it takes away.
Byron
"Stanzas for Music"
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Anon "Good and Bad" 1900c
Tis with our judgement as our watches, none go just alike, yet each
believes his own. Pope
"Essay on Criticism"
The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a
state of contraction. Dr. Henry Gibbons
"Definition of a Kiss"
Remember: The scenery only changes for the lead dog.
The only person who behaves sensibly is my taylor. He takes new
measurements every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their
old measurements. George Bernard Shaw
The thing about inflation is that home owners can live in a more
expensive neighborhood without the hassle of moving.
I must have an immense quantity of mind. It takes so long to make
it up. Mark Twain
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.
Attorney: Someone who writes a 4 page document and calls it a
brief.
Experience is what enables you to reconize a mistake when you make
it again.
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to
travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing
anything. Charles Kuralt
My doctor takes no chances. Before operating on me, he gave me a
pre-surgery credit scan.
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. Mark Twain
It's amazing how important you become when you want a day off, and
how unimportant you are when you want a raise.
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