Notable Quotable 86

May 29, 2023

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.We know more about war than we know about peace,more about killing than we know about living.We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

- Omar N. Bradley

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing.We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwan

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

Today is most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.

- William A. Ward

A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man.

In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

- H.L. Mencken

Buy Me a Coffee

The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.

- Saint Augustine

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

- Aesop

An idiot admires complexity. A genius admires simplicity.

- Terry Davis

Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up.

There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

- Ted Kaczynski