trish123
Lancashire, Lancashire, England UK
Posted: Jan 12, 2008, 5:28 PM CST
The Americans will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” - Winston Churchill
“It is better to die on your feet, than to live a lifetime on your knees” - Emiliano Zapata
“Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity” - Author unknown. Heard a radio DJ say it : )
“I would rather fail in the cause that someday will triumph, rather
than triumph in a cause that someday will fail” - Woodrow Wilson
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” - Albert Einstein
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone
in the light” - Helen Keller
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be …” - Thomas Jefferson
“If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking one hundred years ahead, educate the people.” - Chinese Proverb
Perhaps the most famous put down in English is the retort made by John Wilkes when the Earl of Sandwich, (yes, it is after him that the popular snack is named) shouted at him:
“You, Wilkes, will either die on the gallows or from the pox.”
“That depends, my Lord,” said Wilkes, “on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”
“Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - (An 87 yr old lady named Rose who had gone back to College to get an education.)
“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.” - (Rose again)
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” - Helen Keller
“Education is the progressive realisation of our ignorance” - Albert Einstein
“The only thing needed for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing” - Oscar Wilde
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill