My
Favorite Quotes

Part II

The fool has one advantage over over a man of sense--he is always satisfied with himself. - Napoleon I

Doctors cut, burn and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for their services. - Heraclitus

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. - Arthur Bloch

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spriritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to. - J.D. Salinger

Opinion says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty space. - Democritus, 460 B.C.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies. - George Bernard Shaw

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Why don’t you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce, to her husband James from Witty Quotes

So little trouble do men take in search for the truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand. - Thucydides

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head. - Martin Mull

Here is one of my husband's favorite quotes he got from his Just for Dads desk calendar:

You should have seen what a fine-looking man he was before he had all those children. - Arapesh Tribesman in Papua New Guinea, quoted in Male and Female, by anthropologist Margaret Mead

It is much better to learn one thing well than to know many things partially. - Menander

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. - George Bernard Shaw

Do not give your children moral and religious instruction unless you are quite sure they will not take it too seriously. Better be the mother of Henri Quatre and Nell Gwynne than of Robespierre and Queen Mary Tudor. - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

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