Mamah Cheney @mamah active 9 years, 3 months ago

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)

Do, or do not.There is no ‘try’. (Yoda)

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met onthe street. (Elbert Hubbard)

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. (G. B. Burgin)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)