George Burns on Age

May 17th, 2008

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

- George Burns

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Denis Diderot on Government

May 17th, 2008

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

- Denis Diderot

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Joe Garagiola on Sports

May 16th, 2008

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

- Joe Garagiola

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Douglas Adams on God & Religion

May 16th, 2008

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

- Douglas Adams

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R. Buckminster Fuller on Politics

May 16th, 2008

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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William Wordsworth on Nature

May 16th, 2008

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

- William Wordsworth

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James A. Baldwin on Change

May 15th, 2008

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James A. Baldwin

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Eugene Ionesco on Dreams & Dreaming

May 15th, 2008

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

- Eugene Ionesco

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Gary McCord on Sports

May 14th, 2008

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

- Gary McCord

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Bertrand Russell on War

May 14th, 2008

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell

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