Random quotes that I have collected over the years.

Quotes

• To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

George Bernard Shaw

• I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as you.

Bertrand Russell

• A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Albert Einstein.

• As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it.

• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
• We think in generalities, but we live in details.

• Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
• I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
• Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

• ...man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

• Remember that time is money.
• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
• God helps them that help themselves.
• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
• There never was a good war or a bad peace.
• Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
  

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
  
• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

• Plenty of people despise money, but few know how to give it away.
• It is easier to forgive your enemy than to forgive a friend.
• Don't go to visit your friend in the hour of his disgrace.
• A true friend is the most precious of all posessions and the one we take least thought about aquiring.
• We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to.
• Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
• Many wise words are spoken in jest...but they don't begin to compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest!