Archives for April 2025

Love without attachment is light.
—Norman O. Brown (American Philosopher)

A well-aimed spear is worth three.
—Ted Williams (American Sportsperson)

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
—John Aubrey (English Antiquarian, Writer)

The smaller the function, the greater the management.
—C. Northcote Parkinson (British Historian)

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
—Robert Owen (British Social Reformer)

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
—William Styron (American Novelist)

Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked “Take it or leave it. “
—Arthur Seldon (British Economist)

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau (French Mime Artist)

Someone has written, “Love is a verb”. It requires doing – not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
—David B. Haight (American Mormon Leader)

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
—Ralph Washington Sockman (American United Methodist Pastor)

This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition.
—John Kerry (American Politician)

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (Irish Novelist)

Diversify everything in your life, including the people you listen to for advice.
—James Altucher (American Author, Entrepreneur)

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
—Vance Palmer (Australian Writer, Critic)

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
—Ben Stein (American Lawyer)

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing, they become fanatics about conservatism.
—Walter Lippmann (American Journalist)

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
—Margaret Cho (American Stand-Up Comedian)

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
—Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

Increased borrowing must be matched by increased ability to repay. Otherwise we aren’t expanding the economy, we’re merely puffing it up.
—Henry C. Alexander (American Banker)

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
—Shirley MacLaine (American Actor)

I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
—Tom Landry (American Football Coach)