Cool quotes for the week of March 8th
March 8, 2008 by ElfNinosMom
James Branch Cabell:
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Albert Einstein:
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax
R.D. Laing:
Life is a sexually transmitted disease
George Orwell:
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
Blaise Pascal:
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
John F. Kennedy:
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
David Friedman:
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Rather,
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only on children and small nations.