Today Quotes
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I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.George Carlin
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.Thucydides
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.Dante Alighieri
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"