Josh Billings on Forgivness

September 20th, 2006

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

- Josh Billings

Dan Duva on Sports

September 20th, 2006

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

- Dan Duva

Bob Lemon on Sports

September 19th, 2006

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

- Bob Lemon

H. S. M. Burns on Business

September 19th, 2006

Take care of those who work for you and you’ll float to greatness on their achievements.

- H. S. M. Burns

Paul A. Volcker on Business

September 18th, 2006

What’s the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

- Paul A. Volcker

Esther Dyson on Technology

September 18th, 2006

Encryption…is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government… It’s hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

- Esther Dyson

George Jessel on Marriage

September 17th, 2006

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

- George Jessel

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Love

September 17th, 2006

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Earl of Chesterfield on History

September 16th, 2006

A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

- Earl of Chesterfield

T. S. Eliot on Art

September 16th, 2006

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

- T. S. Eliot