Cool Quotes
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
"Women are meant to be loved, not understood."
-Oscar Wilde
"Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?"
-Unknown platoon sergeant, 1918
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
-Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
-Aristotle
"We make war that we may live in peace."
-Aristotle
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
-Plato
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."
-Anonymous
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
-Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
-G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard, be evil."
-Seen on a T-shirt
"I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea-a practice I shall always follow."
-Robert Heinlein (1907-1988), "Starship Troopers", 1959
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion [violence never settles anything] is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
-Robert Heinlein (1907-1988), "Starship Troopers", 1959
I will update this as often as I can. It's surprisingly difficult to find poignant quotes on short notice.
Posted byJ. R. Guinness at 2:25 AM
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