Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
-- Lewis Mumford
"I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea of that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: May be dangerous to your health."
~ Frank Herbert
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first the ones who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
By the way, can you tell me where he gets his whiskey? He has given us successes, and if his whiskey does it, I should like to send a barrel of the same brand to every general in the field.
- Abraham Lincoln (attributed), responding to allegations of Ulysses S. Grant being a drunkard
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.
- Terry Pratchett
I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult," said Granny firmly. ‘Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.’
‘But all them things exist,’ said Nanny Ogg.
‘That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ‘em.
- Terry Pratchett
Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed.
- Terry Pratchett
I'm not going to spam the thread with more Granny Weatherwax quotes, but I really love that old lady. I want to be her when I'm old ?.
“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it ... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
-- Will Rogers
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Caesar and Cleopatra", Act III
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
-- Emersons' Law of Contrariness
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-- James Gordon Bennett
-- Lewis Mumford
~ Frank Herbert
-- Orlando A. Battista
-Ron White(comedian)
- Abraham Lincoln
By the way, can you tell me where he gets his whiskey? He has given us successes, and if his whiskey does it, I should like to send a barrel of the same brand to every general in the field.
- Abraham Lincoln (attributed), responding to allegations of Ulysses S. Grant being a drunkard
-- Alexander Woollcott
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed
- Terry Pratchett
I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult," said Granny firmly. ‘Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.’
‘But all them things exist,’ said Nanny Ogg.
‘That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ‘em.
- Terry Pratchett
Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed.
- Terry Pratchett
I'm not going to spam the thread with more Granny Weatherwax quotes, but I really love that old lady. I want to be her when I'm old ?.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Lan Mandragoran in The Wheel of Time)
- Niki Lauda
And may he rest in peace.
-- Winston Churchill
- Ayn Rand
If only politicians had a code of morality other than getting more power no matter the cost and pretending to believe whatever will give them votes.
-- Will Rogers
Carl von Clausewitz
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Caesar and Cleopatra", Act III
-- Emersons' Law of Contrariness
-- Ivern Ball, "Modern Secretary"