Quote from Henry S.Haskins

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.-Henry S.Haskins

Quote from Garrett Hardin

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.-Garrett Hardin,THE ECOLOGIST,FEBRUARY 1974.

Quote from Henry S.Haskins

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.-Henry S.Haskins

Quote on the car

The car has become the carapace,the protective and aggressive shell,of urban and suburban man.-Marshall McLuhan,UNDERSTANDING MEDIA

Great quote from Edward McDonagh

The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual,his shrine to the self,his mobile Walden Pond.-Edward McDonagh

Quote from Clifton Fadiman

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of thought,whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.-Clifton Fadiman(1904-1999)

Interesting quote from William Rootes

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the knights quite fulfills a man's ego like an automobile.-William Rootes

Great quote from Arnold Toynbee

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.-Arnold Toynbee

Quote from Dan Bellack

Life is too short for traffic.-Dan Bellack

Quote from Clifton Fadiman

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas.A great book is often such a midwife,delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark,silent depths of the brain.-Clifton Fadiman(1904-1999)

Unusual quote from Clifton Fadiman

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.-Clifton Fadiman(1904-1999)

Great quote from Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.-Shirley MacLaine

Quote on travel

When you travel,remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable.It is designed to make its own people comfortable.-Clifton Fadiman(1904-1999)

Quote from Glen Beaman

Stubbornness does have its helpful features.You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.-Glen Beaman

Quote from Clifton Fadiman

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.-Clifton Fadiman

Another quote on wine

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.-Clifton Fadiman

Quote from Clifton Fadiman

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation,while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.-Clifton Fadiman

Quote on science fiction

Science fiction is a kind of archeology of the future.-Clifton Fadiman

Quote on cynics

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man,with a stolen lantern.-Edgar A.Shoaff

Quote on cynics

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man,with a stolen lantern.-Edgar A.Shoaff

Another quote from Clifton Fadiman

To feel at home,stay at home.-Clifton Fadiman

Great quote on wine

Wine is poetry in a bottle.-Clifton Fadiman(1904-1999)

Great quote from Clifton Fadiman

For most men,life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.-Clifton Fadiman(1904-1999)

Quote from Cole Porter

Most gentlemen don't like love,they just like to kick it around.-Cole Porter(1893-1964)

Great quote from George Washington

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.-George Washington

Another quote from Max Eastman

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict,not the triumph of any one force.-Max Eastman(1883-1969),REFLECTIONS ON THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM,1955.

Quote from George Herbert

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.-George Herbert,Welsh-born English poet(1593-1633)

Quote from Jim Bishop

Autumn carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons.-Jim Bishop

Interesting quote from Max Eastman

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down.You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.-Max Eastman

Quote from Max Eastman

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts,but men of brains who will not face them.-Max Eastman,American author,journalist and writer(1883-1969)

Another quote from Dean Rusk

The best way to persuade people is with your ears-by listening to them.-Dean Rusk,U.S.Secretary of State(1903-1994).

Quote from John Ruskin

There are many religions,but there is only one morality.-John Ruskin,English art critic(1819-1900)

Quote from Leo Tolstoy

To meet death one needs no letters of introduction.-Leo Tolstoy

Quote from Dean Rusk

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.-Dean Rusk(1909-1994)

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Quote from R.Buckminster Fuller

I just invent ,then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.-R.Buckminster Fuller,U.S.designer and inventor(1895-1983)

Quote from Jim Bishop

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences.It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going;they merely want to know where everyone else has been.-Jim Bishop

Great quote from Doug Larson

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.-Doug Larson

Quote from Jim Bishop

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.-Jim Bishop(1907-1997),American journalist.

Great saying from Madagascar

Let your love be like the misty rain,coming softly,but flooding the river.-Madagascar saying

Quote from Barry Manilow

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.-Barry Manilow

Quote from Grey Livingston

One man's daydreaming is another man's novel.-Grey Livingston

Interesting quote from Albert A.Bartlett

We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached.If growth continues in the period of maturity it is called obesity or cancer.Prescribing growth as the cure for the energy crisis has all the logic of prescribing increasing quantities of food as a remedy for obesity.-Albert A.Bartlett

Quote from Charlie Chaplin

We think too much and feel too little.More than machinery,we need humanity.More than cleverness,we need kindness and gentleness.-Charlie Chaplin

Quote from Grey Livingston

Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap.-Grey Livingston

Quote from James Lileks

All children are lawyers at heart.Looking for the loophole.-James Lileks

Quote from Bruce Crampton

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do,what experience tells you to do,and what your nerves let you do.-Bruce Crampton

Quote on history

History is not an accelerator.-Max Eastman

Quote from Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.-Max Eastman

Biting quote from Winston Churchill

A communist is like a crocodile:when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.-Winston Churchill

Quote oh humor

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.-Max Eastman

Quotefrom Max Eastman

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.-Max Eastman(1883-1969)

Quote from Grey Livingston

Beauty comes as much from the mind as the eye.-Grey Livingston

Quote on alimony

Alimony is a system by which,when two people make a mistake,one of them keep paying for it.-Peggy Joyce

Quote on genius

Everyone is born a genius,but the process of living de-geniuses them.-R.Buckminster Fuller

Quote from R.Buckminster Fuller

I'm not a genius.I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.-R.Buckminster Fuller(1895-1983)

Quote from Pearl Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone,and that's where I renew my springs that  never dry up.-Pearl Buck

Quote from Florence King

In social matters,pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette,but the snake bite of the moral order.-Florence King

Great quote from Albert Bartlett

Smart growth destroys the environment.Dumb growth destroys the environment.The only difference is that 'smart growth'does it with good taste.It's like booking passage on the Titanic.Whether you go first-class or steerage,the result is the same.-Albert Bartlett

Superb quote from Alex Beam on digital books

The digital book has no front or back covers;there is no place to assert ownership,and there is nothing to own.``The digital delivery module'' is a piece of molded plastic book made in China,encasing a few memory chips.That is not the book,that's the ''reader.''Wait,I thought I was the reader.Oh,never mind.-Alex Beam,columnist for THE BOSTON GLOBE

Quote from Cecil Rhodes

Man begets,but land does not beget.-Cecil Rhodes

Quote from Elbert Hubbard

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back,than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.-Aneurin Bevan

Quote from Aneurin Bevan

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.-Aneurin Bevan

Quote from R.Buckminster Fuller

Gold and silver from the dead often turn into lead.-R.Buckminster Fuller

Quote on love

Love is metaphysical gravity.-R.Buckminster Fuller

Quote on dreams

A dream has power to poison sleep.-Percy Blysse Shelley

Interesting quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful;for beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Charles Kingsley

Beauty is God's handwriting.-Charles Kingsley

Four great quotes on dreams

1.Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.-From the X-Files
2.Dreams are free therapy.Consult your inner Freud.-Grey Livingston
3.Dreams are free therapy,but you can only get appointments at night.-Greg Livingston
4.A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.-Erich Fromm

Great quote from Grey Livingston

Night has become painful for me.It brings to light the regrets of the day.-Grey Livingston

Quote on dreamers

Dor a dreamer,night's the only time of day.-From the movie NEWSIES

Quote from Anne Sexton

In a dream you are never eighty.-Anne Sexton

Great quote on war

Either war is obsolete or men are.-Richard Buckminster Fuller(1895-1983)

Quote from R.Buckminster Fuller

Dare to be naive.-R.Buckminster Fuller

Great quote on originality

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.-André Maurois(1885-1967)

An interesting quote on happiness

The first recipe for happiness is:Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.-Andre Maurois

Quote on conversation

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words:'I do not know.'-Andre Maurois(1885-1967)

Quote on business

Business is a combination of war and sport.-Andre Maurois(1885-1967)

Quote from Andre Maurois

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.-Andre Maurois(1885-1967)

Great quote from Andre Maurois

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.-Andre Maurois,ARIEL.

Great quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Insightful quote from George Orwell

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.-George Orwell

Quote from Upton Sinclair

All art is propaganda.It is universally and inescapably propaganda;sometimes unconsciously,but often deliberately propaganda.-Upton Sinclair

Quote from W.H.Auden

Stare,stare in the basin
And wonder what you've missed.-W.H.Auden

Quote from Don Herold

If I had to live my life over,I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.-Don Herold

Provocative quote from Mark Twain on cannibalism

I regard the poor man,in his present condition,as so much wasted raw material.Cut up and properly canned,he might be made useful to fatten the natives of the cannibal islands and to improve our export trade in that region.I shall recommend legislation upon the subject in my first message.My campaign cry will be:
"Dessicate the poor working-man;stuff him into sausages.''-Mark Twain,in THE NEW YORK EVENING POST,June 9,1879.

Quote from Paul Simon

Who am I to blow against the wind?-Paul Simon

Great quote from Brendan Gill

If the unexamined life is not worth living,the unexamined past is not worth possessing;it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light ,and is as changeable and as full of surprises,pleasant and unpleasant,as the future.-Brendan Gill(1914-1997),American critic and writer for THE NEW YORKER

Quote from Oscar Wilde

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything,except what is worth knowing.-Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)

Facts on Canadian Tire Money

Canadian Tire money was introduced in 1958.The Wall Street Journal once called Canadian Tire money 'Canada's second currency'.

Interesting quote on America

I love America,but I don't like it.-Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951),American writer

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal,of the crusaders a crusader and of the merchants a merchant.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Provocative quote from Herman Melville

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.-Herman Melville

Very insightful quote on cannibalism

Easter Island collapsed in just an epidemic of civil war but cannibalism.Of all the collapses of the past,I find the one that grabs people the most is that of Easter Island.-Jared Diamond

Quote from Walter Benjamin

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.-Walter Benjamin

Quote from Morey Amsterdam

A cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.-Morey Amsterdam

Another quote from Louise Brooks

I have a gift for enraging people,but if I ever bore you,it'll be with a knife.-Louise Brooks(1906-1985)

Another quote from Buster Keaton

Think slow,act fast.-Comic actor Buster Keaton

Quote on obscenity

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.-Brendan Gill (1914-1997),American critic and writer for THE NEW YORKER

Quote from Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.-Buster Keaton

Another quote from Sinclair Lewis

There are two insults no human being will endure:that he has no sense of humor,and that he has never known trouble.-Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951).

Quote from Sinclair Lewis

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe and polite,obedient and sterile.-American writer Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951).

Quote from Louise Brooks

In my dreams I am not crippled.In my dreams,I dance.-Silent film actress Louise Brooks

Insightful quote on war

One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies.-Bruce Kent

Quote on parody

Parody is homage gone sour.-Brendan Gill(1914-1997),(Brendan Gill was a famous writer for New Yorker magazine).

Quote from Buster Keaton

Tragedy is a close-up;comedy,a long shot.-Buster Keaton(1895-1966),American comic and actor

Quote from Louise Brooks

A well-dressed woman ,even though her purse is painfully empty,can conquer the world.-Louise Brooks(1906-1985)

Quote on writing

Writing is one percent inspiration and 99 percent elimination.-Silent film actress and author Louise Brooks(1906-1985)