Quotes



Revised 1/24/08

  • Fifty years of being married, and what have I learned from it all? I say to my fellow husbands --whose eyeballs may be covered with lust --that the way to possess all women is to love one woman well.
    Ossie Davis
  • If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
    William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  • I am profoundly convinced that, aside from the practice of redeeming love, there is no way to dedicate our capital, our machines and our social order to God. This love alone can build an unexploiting economic order. The consciousness of this love alone can create a cooperative community and a national and international life where there shall be no sense of color.
    Toyohiko Kagawa, Christ and Japan (115)
  • ...everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
    "The Drum Major Instinct" from A Knock At Midnight - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist.
    The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst
  • The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    Niels Bohr
  • Every headline in the newspaper is a story about philosophy, because it is about what people believe, and how they act on their beliefs.
    Richard Shuldenfrei
  • When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.
    Danny Kaye as Phil Davis in White Christmas
  • When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I've never tried before.
    Mae West
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