"The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all."
Jim Elliot
"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."
Edmund Burke
"If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
William Shakespeare
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met."
Steven Wright
"Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection - that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement."
Mark Twain
"Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection - that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement."
Mark Twain
"Nonsense draws evil after it."
C.S. Lewis
"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside."
William Cowper
"Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric."
Thomas Sowell
"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
Quoted in:
The Ever-Present Past
by Edith Hamilton, 1964