- Previous visitors will know that I collect quotations from here and there in my travels. Some I disperse via Facebook and Twitter (too many quotations require more than 140 characters!); most I amass and then gang up here. Herewith, the latest batch:
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” —Susan B. Anthony
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.” Oscar Levant
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” —Mohandas Gandhi
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” —George Bernard Shaw
“Isn’t it ironic that in the continuing Atheist/Religious war the only side to have tortured and killed is the religious side.” —Baron von Knifty
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.” —Aldous Huxley
“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.” —Jim Rohn
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” —Tennessee Williams
“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“We ... must have a period in which we lie fallow, and restore our souls.” —Wayne Muller
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” —John Cage
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.” —Sydney Smith
