A quotation from Samuel Johnson
> Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of […]
A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
> You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
**Adlai Stevenson** (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-08-28), “Faith in Liberalism,” State Committee of the Liberal Party, New York City
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"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous....
"With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."
Thomas Jefferson, 1822
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
> Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human import, forcing upon their minds the issues, pleasures, busyness, importance and immediacy of that life in which they stand; books of smiling or heroic temper, to excite or to console; books of a large […]
“Pitiful. Can this world do no better than *you* as its champion?”
“Probably. I just do the best I can.”
— The Destroyer and the Brigadier, in “Battlefield”
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A quotation from Kerry Greenwood
> Enough of this … I am not cut out to be a guide to youth. I think youth can get itself into enough trouble without my help, don’t you, Youth?
**Kerry Greenwood** (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher No. 13, _The Castlemaine Murders_ , ch. 4 […]
A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle
> “Which is it to-day,” I asked, “morphine or cocaine?”
> He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. “It is cocaine,” he said, “a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?”
**Arthur Conan Doyle** (1859-1930) […]
A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
> I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible […]
A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
> If you find many people who are hard and indifferent to you in a world that you consider to be unhospitable and cruel — as often, indeed, happens to a tender-hearted, stirring young creature — you will also find there are noble hearts who will look kindly on […]
A quotation from Josh Billings
> Q. — What is pity?
> A. — Cheap charity.
**Josh Billings** (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
_Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax,_ 1871-12 (1871 ed.)
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A quotation from Cicero
The people were certain that their freedom was at risk. Their leaders did not agree.
_[Populus libertatem agi putabat suam. Dissentiebant principes.]_
**Marcus Tullius Cicero** (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
_Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius],_ ch […]
A quotation from Franklin
Good Sense is a Thing all need, few have, and none think they want.
**Benjamin Franklin** (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard_ (1746 ed.)
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Have you noticed how people's intellectual curiosity declines sharply the moment they start waving guns about?
— The Doctor, in “The Horns of Nimon”
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A quotation from Thoreau
> It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know […]
A quotation from Montaigne
> Deliberation, even about the slightest things, annoys me; and I feel my mind harder put to it to endure the various shocks and ups and downs of doubt and deliberation, than to settle down and accept any course whatever, after the die is cast. Few passions have […]
A quotation from Montaigne
> Deliberation, even about the slightest things, annoys me; and I feel my mind harder put to it to endure the various shocks and ups and downs of doubt and deliberation, than to settle down and accept any course whatever, after the die is cast. Few passions have […]
A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
> FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning!
> ALL: God forbid!
> FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it.
**Christopher "Kit" Marlowe** (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
_The Tragicall […]
A quotation from Douglas Adams
> “So what’s the point of showing me something I can’t see?”
> “So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring […]
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
> Accept modestly; surrender gracefully.
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> [Ἄτύφως μὲν λαβεῖν, εὐλύτως δὲ ἀφεῖναι.]
**Marcus Aurelius** (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
_Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν],_ Book 6, ch. 33 (8.33) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth […]
A quotation from James Howell
> Look high and fall into a Cow-turd.
**James Howell** (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
_Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages_, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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CAESAR: What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
— Julius Caesar, II, ii
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Square black and white photo of a silver coffee pot and a white cup of black coffee shot from above against a black background with a quotation overlaid in yellow writing: “Stay Calm, Stay Covered, Stay Considerate, Stay Cautious & Stay Caffeinated.” By Loren Weisman
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“Was that a bomb?”
“No. That was the return to Earth of a comet called Nemesis that has been in orbit for exactly 350 years.”
“You're amazing, Professor, being able to tell all that just from the noise.”
— Ace and the Doctor, in “Silver Nemesis”
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“If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.” — John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
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A quotation from Thomas More
> Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
> Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
> Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
> Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
> CALVIN: Hobbes, do you think our morality is defined by our actions, or by what’s in our hearts?
> HOBBES: I think our actions _show_ what’s in our hearts.
> CALVIN: _(after consideration)_ **_I resent that!_**
**Bill […]
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
> COMPETITOR, _n._ A scoundrel who desires that which we desire.
**Ambrose Bierce** (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Competitor,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco _Wasp_ (1881-08-05)
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
> The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
**Hannah Arendt** (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
_Life of the Mind_ […]
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A quotation from The Bible
> Lord, who may enter your Temple?
> Who may worship on Zion, your sacred hill?
> Those who obey God in everything
> and always do what is right,
> whose words are true and sincere,
> and who do not slander others.
> They do no wrong to their friends
> nor spread […]
LORENZO: How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.
— The Merchant of Venice, III, v
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