Notable Quotes for January 2017
“You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying.
You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark.
If it didn’t pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.”
— Matt LeBlanc
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.”
— Heywood Broun
“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people.
So overweight people are now average.
Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.”
— Jay Leno
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.”
— Benjamin Franklin
"Never spend your money before you have it."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
— Benjamin Franklin
“We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he himself did,
but we are all responsible for what somebody else did, either in the present or in the past.”
— Thomas Sowell
"On the Thirteen Virtues, the fourth is Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought.
Perform without fail what you resolve."
— Benjamin Franklin,
Poor Richard’s Almanack
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. "
— Abraham Lincoln
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
— P.J. O’Rourke
“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.
I am like a snowball—the further I roll, the more I gain.”
— Susan B. Anthony
“ He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.”
— Benjamin Franklin
"There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all made of the same stardust.
We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space.
We have to work together."
— Bill Nye
“Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a Gallon of Vinegar.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2,
but the letters “twelve plus one” rearrange to give you “eleven plus two.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there (the White House), really.
I don’t know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man.
A Politician can’t run any other kind of business.
So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That’s the biggest single business in the World.”
— Will Rogers,
Weekly Articles, 1923
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth.
Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
— P.J. O’Rourke