Lord Salisbury Famous Quotes
"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe."
Lord Salisbury Quotations
"Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant."
Henry M Wriston
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
Rodan of Alexandria
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
William Ralph Inge
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
Henry Fielding
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Douglas Noel Adams
"We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
Maxwell Maltz
"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."
Stephen Jay Gould