Never mistake change for improvement.
- Me
excuse me while i kiss the sky
- jimi
The unmanifest will become the manifest.
-me
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987),
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman (1942 - ), Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
John Gotti
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
Bernard M. Baruch
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson
No one can wear a mask for very long.
Seneca
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
Baltasar Gracian
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
James M. Barrie
All of life's big problems include the words "indictment" or "inoperable." Everything else is small stuff.
Famous quotes - Henry Ford
"A man who stops advertising to save money, is like a man who stops the clock to save time" - Henry Ford
