Random quotes of old

2014-08-20

From a young age, I used to collect quotes in a notebook. Here are a few that have (so far) withstood the test of time.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition

-- Timothy Leary

While I do not typically approve of man-bashing feminism, I make exceptions for humor

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors

-- William Ralph Inge

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including American.

-- Adlai Stevenson

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety

--Aesop

I am at two with nature

-- Woody Allen

Is this her fault or mine? / The tempter of the tempted, who sins the most?

-- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

-- Henry W. Longfellow

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

-- Charles F Kettering

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

-- Thomas Fuller

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

-- Oscar Wilde

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him

-- Booker T. Washington

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

-- Mark Twain

If I have made great achievements it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of greats

-- Isaac Newton

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are

-- Anais Nin