“Diseases enter by the mouth, misfortune issues from it.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“If God’s ordinances are sure and certain, then God must be dependable. We can rely on him. God’s laws are unchanging. God is not evolving; hence his laws are not evolving. Perfection cannot be improved upon .... There are no mood swings with God. He is not fickle. He does not change with the times. The changing god, the evolving god who suddenly gets with it, is no god at all, since he is a god fashioned at our own impulse, made to suit and bless our ever-changing whims.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“cast into the furnace of contempt.”
Robert B. Heilman “Freedom from Speech” in Jack E. Conner & Marcelline Krafchick, eds., Speaking of Rhetoric
“I once asked General Eisenhower’s son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn’t like.’”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“peaceful anarchy, than which nothing could be more impossible, given human nature as it is.”
Mortimer J. Adler Ten Philosophical Mistakes
“Every man desires to obtain additional wealth with as little sacrifice as possible.”
N.W. Senior in 1836 “laying down the first of the four principles of Political Economy” quoted in “What is Left of Adam Smith?” in Stephen Leacock On the Front Line of Life
“Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they’ll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.”
Margaret Thatcher quoted in the Epoch Times email newsletter Nov. 22 2020 (it appears to be a modified form of a quotation “Watch your thoughts; they become words” that I found online attributed to everyone from Lao Tzu to Gandhi to Frank Outlaw but Thatcher really did say the version quoted above)
“A wise man once said… nothing.”
Once again, and perhaps ironically, I succumb to the temptation of quoting myself (from May 5, 2002 for any real pedants in the audience)