Monday, April 24, 2006

A potpourri of quotes and proverbs

1.Nobobdy roots for Goliath.-Wilt Chamberlain
2.Man is the main source of his own misery.-Chinese proverb
3.A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.-Sioux proverb
4.Animals feed,man eats .Only the mam of intellect knows how to eat.-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
5.We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.-Libbie Fudim
6.Our patience will achieve more than our force.-Edmund Burke
7.If sunbeams were weapons of war,we would have had solar energy centuries ago.-Sir George Porter
8.Change is not made without inconvenience,even from worse to better.-Richard Hooker
9.Three brothers,three castles.-Proverb
10.There is nothing stable in the world;uproar's your only music.-John Keats
11.Don't expect a great day;make one.-On a billboard in Manhattan
12.It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.-Mark Twain
13.We generate our own environment.We get exactly what we deserve.How can we resent a life we've created ourselves.-Richard Bach
14.Poverty is not socialism.To be rich is glorious.-Deng Xiaoping
15.Reason has always existed,but not always in a reasonable form.-Karl Marx
16.The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession,what there is of it.-Mark Twain
17.The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.-Virginia Woolf
18.Trains cannot be run for charity.-Mahatma Gandhi
19.COrruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy.-Mahatma Gandhi

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