Quotations Set 31

1. The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. - Franklin P. Adams, columnist (1881-1960)

2. We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. - Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)

3. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. - Ronald Searle, artist (1920- )

4. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens. - Joseph Brodsky, writer (1940-1996)

5. There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer (1803-1873)

6. The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. - Hannah Arendt, historian and philosopher (1906-1975)

7. Once you label me you negate me. - Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)

8. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

9. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)

10. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)

11. Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. - Hank Ketcham, comic artist (1920-2001)

12. This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don't know where their next meal is coming from. - David S. Landes, author, professor of economics and history (1924- )

13. Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)

14. There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. - Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971)

15. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. - Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

16. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. - Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

17. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. - Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)

18. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

19. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (1942-1970)

20. Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. - Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

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