“I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The only way they would help an old lady across the street is by setting fire to her skirt.” An unnamed diplomat on a corrupt and arrogant Third World military organization, quoted in The Economist April 6 1991
“The collapse of German philosophy always occurs at the beginning rather than at the end of an argument.”
G.K. Chesterton (in “The Refusal of Reciprocity” in The Appetite of Tyranny according to Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #2 p. 31)
“For it is history alone which, without involving us in actual danger, will mature our judgement and prepare us to take right views, whatever may be the crisis or the posture of affairs.”
Polybius (quoted in Hugh Thomas An Unfinished History of the World)
“If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.”
Samuel Johnson
“There are three kinds of disciples: those who impart Zen to others, those who maintain the temples and shrines, and then there are the rice bags and the clothes hangers.”
Nyogen Senzaki (Jon Winokur, Compiler and Editor, Zen To Go)
“Easy to call, hard to run. Let’s go!”
Frequent final comment in a huddle by legendary Oakland Raiders quarterback Kenny “Snake” Stabler
Jean Kerr (playwright and author of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies)