Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb. -- Stanley Kaufman | |
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. -- Stanley Baldwin | |
"We can't schedule an orgy, it might be construed as fighting" --Stanley Sutton | |
"Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you still have to argue it point by point. Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That's libertarians for you -- anarchists who want police protection from their slaves!" -- Coyote, in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars" | |
Chemistry is applied theology. -- Augustus Stanley Owsley III | |
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. -- Stanley Garn | |
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. Keep the company of bums and you will become a bum. Hang around with rich people and you will end by picking up the check and dying broke. -- Stanley Walker | |
Last guys don't finish nice. -- Stanley Kelley, on the cult of victory at all costs | |
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. -- Stanley Kubrick | |
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. -- Stanley J. Randall |