Random Quotes
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.Helen Keller
Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine."Malcom X" ( 1964), The Atobiograghy of Malcom X
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
Hobbies cost money but interests are free.George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
You are free, and that is why you are lost.Franz Kafka
Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.Buddy Hackett
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.Saadi, On the Duties of Society
He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.Saadi, On the Duties of Society
Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.Saadi, On the Excellence of Contentment