John Still Famous Quotes
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
John Still Quotations
"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Chuangtzu
"The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell."
David Thomas
"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
Samuel McChord Crothers
"Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J D Salinger
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill
"I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values
Alan Greenspan
"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."
Ronnie Lott
"Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead."
Laertius Diogenes