Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it and the frog generally dies as a result.
E. B. White
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Attributed to Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln
Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they would be married too.
H. L. Mencken
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules.
Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill"On Liberty"
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Robert Cody
Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.
Norwegian proverb
The trouble with going with the flow is, you might wind up getting sucked down the drain.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
Education is very important. School, however, is another matter.
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head
Randolph Bourne
Guns don't kill people -- people do.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
If you would keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
It is better to be deceived by a friend, than to suspect him
