Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[kingzeppelin]

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

A.A. Milne

[Haunted]

"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."
~ Nikita S. Khrushchev

[kingzeppelin]

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.


David Lee Roth

[Haunted]

"No compact among men ... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
~George Washington, draft of first Inaugural Address, 1789

[Becks19]

This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
- Brooks Atkinson

[blunthead]

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

[Haunted]

"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable."
~George Washington, Message to the House of Representatives, 1793

[Becks19]

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
- Alan Paton

[blunthead]

Becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak. - Anonymous

[blunthead]

Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Eagan