GREAT QUOTES / 26

Another installment of quotes gleaned from the Internet.............I enjoy the ebb and flow of quotation themes as we progress from season to season and situation to situation..........It must be true that there is something to be said about everything that happens because there is nothing new in the world............That's what makes cliches, cliches...........PEACE.............Scott



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark
Twain


We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R.
Murrow


The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth. . . have
invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can
carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what
they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more
important matters of big business and fornication - Somerset Maugham


A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a
lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an
election is a reformer and remains at large. - Finley Peter Dunne


We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. - Herman Melville


Life in America has become one big docudrama and you can't tell what's
real and what's make believe - Josiah Swampoodle


It's all over but the lyin' - Jack McEnany, Lost Nation


Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid
for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his
decision to rise above his condition. - Albert Camus


Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be
unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers
be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. - John
Quincy Adams


- Voltaire: Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has
the power to make you commit injustices.


“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority
keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”
– Samuel Adams

To those who have hunger, give bread. to those who have bread, give a
hunger for justice - Latin American table prayer