The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ~Karl Marx
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. ~Malcolm Muggeridge
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Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch
When life gives you scraps, make something with them. ~Author Unknown
There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph. ~Martin D. Ginsburg
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1847
Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?" ~Jack Handey
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. ~Marvin Minksy
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~Oscar Wilde
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ~Barbra Streisand
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." ~Gordon Allport
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. ~Andre Gide
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung
The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. ~Charles Towne
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ~Earl Nightingale
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ~Elayne Boosler
In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness. ~Phillips Brooks
