A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.”
—Claude Pepper
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.”
—Claude Pepper
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
—Horace Walpole
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
—Franz Schubert
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
—Heinrich Heine
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
—Jerry Pournelle
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
No comment.
—A Smart Politician
I want a language that speaks the truth.
—Studs Terkel
The words of truth are simple.
—Aeschylus
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
—Milton Friedman
Remember, though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp—provided it’s loaded.
—Robert Heinlein
Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest. Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
When we lie to ourselves, and believe our own lies, we become unable to recognize truth, either in ourselves or anyone else, and we end up losing respect for ourselves and others. When we have no respect for anyone, we can no longer love, and in order to divert ourselves, having no love in us, we yield to our impulses, indulge in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behave in the end like an animal, in satisfying our vices. And it all comes from lying—lying to ourselves and others.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.
—Samuel R. Delany
Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahrheits-Liebe. The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.
—P. J. O’Rourke
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
—John D. Rockefeller
ὅσῳ κράτιστον κτημάτων εὐβουλία. Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
—Sophocles
A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
—Proverbs 17:4
A close mouth catches nae flees.
—Scottish Proverb
You can’t hold two watermelons in one hand.
—Afghan Proverb
Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur. When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
—Quintus Curtius Rufus
Authorities said … best leave it … unsolved.
—Nigel Tufnel
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
—C. S. Lewis
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
—Pearl S. Buck