funny quotes about attitude

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ~Bertrand Russell, 1912



Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody. ~Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923



Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923



Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. ~Le Corbusier



Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness."



We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley



We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown



Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~Montesquieu



Historians are gossips who tease the dead. ~Voltaire, Scribbling Books



Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown



I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. ~Alphonse de Lamartine, "Marseillaise of Peace," 1841



The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis. ~Beatrice & Ira Freeman



Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips



The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson



I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. ~Oscar Wilde