Notable Quotes
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
— P.J. O’Rourke
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; It’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”
— Margaret Thatcher, British PM (1979-90)
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
— Nora Ephron
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Sound, & sound doctrine, may pass through a Ram’s Horn and a Preacher,
without straightening the one, or amending the other.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy,
so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.”
— Thomas Sowell
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
— Winston Churchill
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
IF you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards,
that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
— Thomas Sowell
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”
— Thomas Sowell