“Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.”
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
“The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Once abolish God, and the government becomes the God.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Christendom in Dublin” quoted by Noah Morey in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #1 (September 2004)
“This [race] is as tight as the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford.”
“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” [Dan Rather] in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005
Re the title character, a dog, doing things like hunting, fighting, being full, lying in the sun etc. “They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”
Jack London White Fang
“I think that, as life is passion and action, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“U.S. judge, and Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.” quoted by Christie Blatchford in Globe & Mail July 7, 2006 [filing from Kandahar, Afghanistan]
“Suppose the government wants to build a highway through my house. Suppose also that they give me the fair market value for my land. This is obscene profit. Obviously I value my land more than the fair market value. If not, I would have sold it.”
R.C. Sproul, Jr. in The Freeman November 1994
“Empty heads have long tongues.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts