Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956) If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison 4th president of US (1751 - 1836) Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann US author & journalist (1889 - 1974) A place for everything and everything in its place. Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861 Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965) Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) Health food makes me sick. Calvin Trillin US columnist (1935 - ) If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France French novelist (1844 - 1924) |