quotes

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
           -- Will Rogers, New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
           -- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
           -- Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
           -- George Bernard Shaw, Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
           -- Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982


Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
           -- Chester Bowles


Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
           -- Christopher Morley

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
           -- Adam Clayton Powell Jr., "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
           -- Albert Einstein

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
           -- Katharine Hepburn

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
           -- Voltaire

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
           -- Barbara Tober