John Billings Famous Quotes
Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools.
John Billings Quotations
"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
Gertrude Stein
"O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall."
Dante Alighieri
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts."
Thomas Carlyle
"When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man."
Alain
"The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel."
David K Shipler
"Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets."
Albert Einstein
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Caecilius Statius
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
Thomas J Watson
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
C P Snow
We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
French Proverb