Bill Vaughn on Age
Monday, June 30th, 2008People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughn
Archive for June, 2008
Albert Einstein on Humor
Monday, June 30th, 2008Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Bruce Feirstein on Science
Monday, June 30th, 2008The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
- Bruce Feirstein
Winston Churchill on Business
Monday, June 30th, 2008I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
- Winston Churchill
Thomas Szasz on Society
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
- Thomas Szasz
Katarina Witt on Sports
Sunday, June 29th, 2008When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
- Katarina Witt
Alfred de Musset on Poetry
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred de Musset
William Shakespeare on Imagination
Sunday, June 29th, 2008The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
- William Shakespeare
Gregory Clark on War
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
- Gregory Clark
Kahlil Gibran on Wisdom
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Kahlil Gibran
