Very good Letter to the editor from THE LOS ANGELES TIMES of August 30,2002.

Palatable politics.
After reading the Aug.26 Science File about the Aztecs eating the Spaniards when they attempted to take over their government,we must applaud how much more civilized our wars are these days.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
-Amy Glin,
Los Angeles,Letter to editor,LOS ANGELES TIMES,AUGUST 30,2006

Interesting Kenneth Keniston quote

1.To criticise one's society openly requires a strong heart,especially when criticism is interpreted as pathology------No matter how eagerly the audience awaits or how well prepared the set,only courage can take a performer to the stage.There are many kinds of courage----the courage to risk being wrong,to risk doing unintentional harm-----above all,the courage to overcome one's own humilty.-Kenneth Keniston

More great quotes,proverbs and movie lines

1.But I can forgive you----for being so wonderful that I would choose Hell over Heaven just to hang around with you.-Line from the movie WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.
2.Our urge to know is so great,but our common errors cut so deep.-Stephen Jay Gould
3.God's best gift is a good reporter.-Rudyard Kipling
4.Never measure the height of a mountain,until you have reached the top.Then you will see how low it was.-Dag
Hammarjskold
5.Indecisiveness breeds confusion.-Chinese proverb
6.It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.-Jerry Seinfeld
7.The irritating thought nags at us that progress might be a circle rather than a straight line.-Ed Zeidler,architect.

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Proverbs and quotes for reflection

1.Art isonly a means to life,life fmore abundant.It merely points the way.-Henry Miller
2.Tennis and golf are best played,not watched.-Roger Kahn
3.Some people are likable inspite of their unswerving integrity.
-Don Marquis
4.Most people learn by observation,but there are few who learn by experimentation.And then are those who actually TOUCH the fire to see if it's really hot.-Anonymous

A few more Quotes

1.If you judge people,you have no time to love them.-Mother Teresa.
2.Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.It is bound up with hatred,jealousy,boastfulness,disregard of all rules,and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence:in other words it is war minus the shooting.-George Orwell
3.Nothing sets such stern limits on the liberty of the citizens as a total absence of money.-John Kenneth Galbraith

More quotes and proverbs for your thinking pleasure

1.To live long and well,employ moderation.-Chinese proverb
2.Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn;that there is no end in nature,but every end is a beginning,and under every deep a lower deep opens.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.Newspapers are the daily cardiograms of humanity's heartbeat.-Fred Edge,reporter
4.We are usually the best men when in the worst health.-English proverb
5.You're the first audience to your work,and the most important.-GLoria Naylor
6.Your body is the baggage you must carry through life.The more excess baggage,the shorter the trip.-Arnold Glasgow
7.Success dehumanizes people,but failure makes them fall back on something in themselves.-Canadian novelist Brian Moore.
8.It's hard to be globally minded when you are sleeping under a bridge.-Murray Dobbin,commentator,THE CANADIAN FORUM
9.I don,t go where the money is,I go where the adventure is.-Pierre Berton
10.When I was young,I swore that when I was old enough I'd never forget what it was like to be young.-Sam Orbaum,columnist.
11.All art is concerned with coming into being.-Aristotle.

More Quotes and proverbs to mull over

1.Unless one is a genius,it is best to aim at being intelligible.-Anthony Hope Hawkins
2.Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand;such as working for a living.-P.j'O'Rourke
3.Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.-Jim Fiebig
4.Without courage,wisdom bears no fruit.-Baltasar GRacian
5.Banality in the mouth of a failed businessman or an unpublished novelist sounds banal;in the mouth of David Rockefeller or Philip Roth the same words acquire the weight of oracle.-Lewis Lapham
6.The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.-Richard Braunstein.
7.Fame is being known by more people than you know.It is vulnerability.-Jonathan Miller
8.How can you expect to find ivory in a dog's mouth?-Chinese proverb

Points to ponder and Great proverbs

1.Without freedom of thought,there can be no such thing as wisdom.-Benjamin Franklin
2.Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.-Sam Brown
3.A fool's heart is found in his mouth.-Chinese proverb
4.The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.-Doug Larson
5.Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.
6.They change their skies but not their souls who run across the sea.-Horace
7.If people climb Mount Everest because it's easy,then why do they go up the easy side?-George Carlin
8.Don't be afraid of giving yourself away for if you write you must.And if you can't face that,better not write.-Katherine Anne Porter
9.The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.-Comtesse Diane
10.Everybody's s honest in one way or another.The trouble is ,there's only one official way.-Jean Anouilh
11.Man is the only creature who refuses to be who he is.-Albert Camus
12.You have to give away your TV,and have to read out loud two hours a day minimum.You have to walk in the hills alone and always carry a notebook.-Kate Braverman.

More quotes for proverb and contemplation

1.Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.-French proverb
2.You do best what you like most.-CHinese proverb
3.A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.-American proverb
4.The tongue ever returns to the aching tooth-English proverb
5.A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.-Herman Melville
6.Whining is not only graceless,but can be dangerous.It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.-Maya Angelou
7.Never miss a good chance to shut up.-Will Rogers
8.To be complex does not mean to be fragmented.This is the paradox and genius of our Canadian civilisation.-Adrienne Clarkson
9.A mob is humanity going the wrong way.-Frank Lloyd Wright
10.He who rides the tiger can never dismount.-Chinese proverb
11.Do you know what the death rate around here is?One per person
12.Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.-Jameson Frank
13.Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.-J.Paul Getty
14.Grain is the treasure of all treasures.-Chinese proverb
15.Trees often transplanted never prosper.-Arab proverb
16.To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach,is the great art of life.-William James
17.I have no respect for the passion of equality,which seems to me mrerely idealizing envy.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
18.I write books to find out about things.-Rebecca West
19.Spread the table and contention will cease.-English proverb
20.Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another happy.-H.L.Mencken
21.If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing,how poor we would be.-Antonio Porchia
22.The world is round and the place that may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.-Ivy Baker Priest
23.Strew no roses before swine.-Dutch proverb
24.A weasel comes to say Happy New Year to the chickens.-Chinese proverb
25.Though a tree grows so high,the falling leaves return to the root.-Malay proverb
26.Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.-Chinese proverb

A great Martha Stout book

Martha Stout is the author of the brilliant book 'THE SOCIOPATH NEXT DOOR'.I highly recommend this book for reading.The author argues that about 4% of the population is born without a gene that largely makes them sociopaths.These people have no conscience and prey on others.If you are touched by sociopaths ,please read this book.

Some interesting quotes or proverbs for perusal

1.A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.-Spanish proverb
2.Writing is busy idleness.-Goethe
3.A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler,not a wife.-Greek proverb
4.May you have a wife who doesn't believe what she sees.-Paul Valery
5.The limits of my language are the limits of my world.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
6.Pride is the mask of one's own faults.-Jewish proverb
7.Be glad.Be good.Be brave.-Eleanor Hodgman Porter
8.A razor may be sharper than an ax,but it cannot cut wood.-African(Annang)proverb
9.Revenge does not long remain unrevenged.-German proverb
10.EXamine what is said,not who speaks.-Chinese proverb
11.The rich worry over their money,the poor over their bread.-Vietnamese proverb
12.The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.-Russian proverb
13.Anything we fully do is an alone journey.-Natalie Goldberg
14.One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of choking.-Chinese proverb
15.A bridge is not built from one piece of wood.-Chinese proverb
16.Leisure is work you volunteer for.-Richard Robinson
17.Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.-Gloria Steinem