Quotable Quotes

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:17 pm

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Robert H. Parker

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:48 am

Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.
-- Bill Clinton

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:56 am

As scarce as truth is,the supply is always greater than the demand.

Josh Billings,nom de plume of Henry Wheeler Shaw,American author--1818-1885

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:48 pm

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theisman

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:22 pm

Ideas are powerful things,requiring not a studious contemplation but an action,even if it is only an inner action.

Midge Decter,American writer

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:08 am

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have a great capacity - intellect and resources - to do something about them.

Henry Ford ll

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:00 pm

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel proust,French author 1871-1922

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:35 am

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
-- Edmond de Goncourt

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:31 am

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
-- Albert Einstein

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:58 pm

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
-- Thor Heyerdahl

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:04 pm

Every man is dangerous who only cares for one thing.

G.K. Chesterton,English poet-essayist---1874-1936

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:21 pm

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:57 am

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
-- Fernand Braudel

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:17 pm

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Will Rogers

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:55 pm

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards,but because they are men.

Ludwig Lewisohn,German-borm novelist-critic 1883-1955

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:49 pm

Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions.
-- Christina Gerogiannis

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:43 am

The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:38 pm

I grew up in a neighborhood so rough, I learned to read by the light of a police helicopter.

Bill Jones

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:21 pm

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier,American essayist---1858-1950

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:19 pm

Man adjusts to what he should not; he is unable to adjust to what he should.

Jean Toomer,African-American author-poet--1894-1967