Quote from Theodore H.White

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986)

A couple of great websites for autodidactic people

1 http://selfmadescholar.com
2 http://artofselfeducation.com

Quote from Samuel Smiles

The battle of life is,in most cases,fought uphill;and to win it without a struggle were to perhaps win it without honor.If there were no difficulties there would be no success;if there were nothing to struggle for,there would be nothing to be achieved.-Samuel Smiles,Scottish author(1812-1904)

Quote from Willie Davis

The road to success runs uphill.-Willie Davis

Great quote on conservatives and liberals

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill.A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water.I'm somewhere in between:I believe water should be free,but that water flows downhill.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986),English historian,journalist and novelist.

Quote from Don DeLillo

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.-Don DeLillo,THE NAMES.

Quote from Jack Nicklaus

Golf is a better game played downhill.-Jack Nicklaus(b.1940),American professional golfer.

Quote from Joan Welsh

If you're coasting,you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.-Joan Welsh

Superb quote from Robert A.Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.-Robert A.Heinlein(1907-1988),American science-fiction writer.

Great quote from Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness I was never sent to school;it would have rubbed off some of the originality.-Beatrix Potter

Great quote on education

When you take the free will out of education,that turns it into schooling.-John Taylor Gatto

Quote from George Whitman

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.-George Whitman

A superb quote from A.J.Cronin

Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered,but a maze of passages,through which we must seek our way,lost and confused,now and again checked in a blind alley.
                               But always,if we have faith,a door will open for us,not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of,but one that will ultimately prove good for us.-A.J.Cronin

Interesting website

www.idlehearts.com

Quote from A.J.Cronin

Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.-A.J.Cronin

Quote from William Dean Howells

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.-William Dean Howells

Quote from Ezra Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing-the rest is mere sheep-herding.-Ezra Loomis Pound

Great quote from Raymond Chandler

Most people go through life using up half their energy to protect a dignity they never had.-Raymond Chandler

A quote from Joyce Meyer

We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.-Joyce Meyer

Another quote by William Dean Howells

Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.-William Dean Howells

Great quote from William Dean Howells

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.-William Dean Howells

Quote from Joyce Meyer

When you are tempted to give up,your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.-Joyce Meyer

Another quote from Stephen R.Covey

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.We are spiritual beings on a human journey.-Stephen R.Covey

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

God doesn't measure his bounty,but oh how we do!-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.-Stephen Covey

Great quote by H.G.Wells

Everyone leaves the world a little better-some by leaving.-H.G.Wells

Quote from Terry Pratchett

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.-Terry Pratchett

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Interesting quote on propaganda

Propaganda is a soft weapon;hold it in your hands too long,and it will move about like a snake,and strike the other way.-Jean Anouilh

Quote from Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.-Woodrow Wilson

Quote from Jack Paar

My life seems like one long obstacle course,with me as the chief obstacle.-Jack Paar

Great quote from Anita DeFrantz

Your goals should be out of reach but not out of sight.-Anita DeFrantz

Inspiring facts about Elmer Leonard

Crime writer Elmore Leonard who died in August 2013 at the age of 87,was nicknamed the 'Dickens of Detroit".
           His first novel "THE BIG BOUNCE' was rejected 84 times before it was finally published.

Superb quote on self-education

Formal education will make you a living;self-education will make you a fortune.-Jim Rohn

Quote from Billy Joel

If you are not doing what you love,you are wasting your time.-Singer Billy Joel

An interesting website

www.trishparr.com

Great quote on advertising

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.-Marshall McLuhan(1911-1980),Canadian educator,writer and social reformer.

Quote from Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.-Napoleon Bonaparte

Quote from Charles Caleb Colton

Man is an embodied paradox,a bundle of contradictions.-Charles Caleb Colton

Quote from Raymond Chandler

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.-Raymond Chandler

Great quote from Don DeLillo

The greater the scientific advance,the more primitive the fear.-Don DeLillo,WHITE NOISE

Another quote by Saki

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.-Saki(1870-1916),British(Burman-born) short story writer

Quote from Raymond Chandler

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.-Raymond Chandler,THE LITTLE SISTER.

Quote on gamblers

A gambler never makes the same mistake twice.It's usually three or more times.-Terrence Murphy

Quote from Saki

I hate posterity-it's so fond of having the last word.-Saki

Quote from Raymond Chandler

A good story cannot be devised;it has to be distilled.-Raymond Chandler

Superb quote from Bill Pronzini

Men have mood swings.Women have mood leaps,mood swirls,mood loop-de-loops.-Bill Pronzini,SPOOK.

Superb quote from Raymond Chandler

The tragedy of life,Howard,is not that the beautiful die young,but that they grow old and mean.It will not happen to me.-Raymond Chandler,THE LONG GOODBYE.

Quote from Don DeLillo

It's so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.-Don DeLillo,AMERICANA.

Quote from Raymond Chandler

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.-Raymond Chandler,THE LONG GOODBYE.

Interesting quote on talent

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.-Don DeLillo,COSMOPOLIS.

Great quote on fear

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.-Don De Lillo,WHITE NOISE

Another great quote from Laura Lippman

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate.Do you use the library?For anything?Well,sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for,and it's that book that changes your life.-Laura Lippman,HARDLY KNEW HER:STORIES.

Superb quote from Laura Lippman

I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold.I want those minutes back.When death comes for me,I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams,and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.-Laura Lippman,IN BIG TROUBLE.

Great quote on reading

There's always time to read.Don't trust a writer who doesn't read.It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.-Laura Lippman

Quote from Raymond Chandler

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.-Raymond Chandler,THE BIG SLEEP

Quote on bad taste

Bad taste never dies.It just keeps evolving.-Laura Lippman,HARDLY KNEW HER:STORIES

Great quote on war

War:a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.-Omar Bradley

Great quote from Raymond Chandler

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.-Raymond Chandler,THE LONG GOODBYE.

Quote on advertising

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing.There is more than one way to conquer a country.-Raymond Chandler

Quote from Linda Chandler

When heart and mind connect with spirit and purpose,there is nothing we cannot do.-Linda Chandler

Interesting quote from Raymond Chandler

The more you reason the less you create.-Raymond Chandler(1888-1959)

Quote from Linda Chandler

Live in your imagination,not in your past.-Linda Chandler

Quote on generosity

Generosity is giving more than you can ,and pride is taking less than you need.-Khalil Gibran

Great quote from John Sandford

Nuts don't come in bunches.Only grapes do.-John Sandford,EYES OF PREY

Quote from A.E.Housman

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence,which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.-A.E.Housman

Great quote on writers

Writers may be disreputable,incorrigible,early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.-John Updike

Quote from Louisa May Alcott

I'm not afraid of storms,for I'm learning how to sail my ship.-Louisa May Alcott

Quote from William Saroyan

The transformation in kids-from flashing dragonflies,so to say,to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream-is noticed with pride  by society and with mortification by God.-William Saroyan(1908-1981),writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living inspite of poverty).

Valuable quote from Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.-Thomas Jefferson

Quote from Wendell Berry

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.-Wendell Berry

Quote from Philip Caldwell

Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?-Philip Caldwell

Quote from Laura Schlessinger

My life is what a salmon feels like.They are always going upstream,against the current.-Laura Schlessinger

Quote from Tennessee Williams

Life is partly what we make it,and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.-Tennessee Williams 

A cowboy proverb

Always drink upstream from the herd.-Cowboy proverb

Quote from Bill Gaede

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.-Bill Gaede

Quote from Ruth Rendell

Maybe being married is talking to oneself  with one's other self listening.-Ruth Rendell

Interesting graffiti I saw on George Vanier street

Life is too precious to be wasted.
           Life is too wasted to be precious.
                                -Graffiti I saw on a gate on George Vanier Street in Little Burgundy,Montreal.

Inspiring quote from George Bernard Shaw

When I was young I observed that nine out of evey ten things I did were failures,so I did ten times more work.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from Jane Austen

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.-Jane Austen

Quote from Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea.It is simple,tidy,and not very incriminating.-Alfred Hitchcock(1900-1980)

Interesting quote from Desmond Bagley

If a man is a fool,you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university.You merely train him into a trained fool,ten times more dangerous.-Desmond Bagley

Great quote from Eduardo Galeano

The system:It steals with one hand what it lends with the other.
   Its victims:
The more they pay,the more they owe.
The more they get,the less they have.
The more they sell,the less they earn.-Eduardo Galeano,THE BOOK OF EMBRACES(1989)

Quote from Steven Spielberg

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark?Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?-Steven Spielberg

Interesting quote on camping

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.-Dave Barry

Quote from Jarod Kintz

I want to write a book about shoes that's full of footnotes.-Jarod Kintz

A quote on footnotes

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.-Noel Coward

Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.-Arthur Conan Doyle

Quote from Colin Powell

Bad news isn't wine.It doesn't improve with age.-Colin Powell

Quote from Noel Coward

It's discouraging to see how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.-Noel Coward(1899-1973)

Quote on time

Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.-Noel Coward,BLITHE SPIRIT

Quote on wit

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar;never spread it about like marmalade.-Noel Coward(1899-1973)

Another quote from Noel Coward

I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all.-Noel Coward(1899-1973)

Another quote from Noel Coward

I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all.-Noel Coward(1899-1973)

Quote from Noel Coward

Work is much more fun than fun.-Noel Coward(1899-1974)

An olive oil brand you finished consuming in August 2013

In August 2013,you finished consuming a 1 litre glass bottle of Dante Extra-virgin olive oil .100%Italian.It was quite good.

Great quote from Noel Coward

I don't know what London's coming to--the higher the buildings the lower the morals.-Noel Coward,COLLECTED SKETCHES AND LYRICS.

Quote on Las Vegas

Las Vegas:It was not café society,it was Nescafe society.-Noel Coward

Quote from Ernest Tubb

Be better to your neighbors and you'll have better neighbors.-Ernest Tubb

Quote from Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.-Joseph Campbell

Quote from John Lennon

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.-John Lennon

Quote on Eagles

Eagles are sea gulls with a good hairdo.-Doug Coupland

Quote from Noel Coward

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.-Noel Coward

Interesting quote from Stevie Nicks

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.-Stevie Nicks

Great quote on power

Next to power without honor,the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.-Eric Sevareid(1912-1992)

Another quote from Eric Sevareid

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.-Eric Sevareid(1912-1992)

Quote from Eric Sevareid

The affluent society,with relentless single-minded energy,is turning our cities,most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.-Eric Sevareid,American journalist(1912-1992)

Quote from Eminem

All those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.-Eminem

Quote from Lynn Johnston

The most profound statements are often said in silence.-Lynn Johnston,"FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE."

Quote from James Patterson

Knowledge is valuable,but imagination is invaluable.-James Patterson

Quote from Isaac Asimov

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor,and work in a cell,and vacation in a crowded sun-room,then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.-Isaac Asimov,FOUNDATION.

Interesting quote from Norman Mailer

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.-Norman Mailer

Great quote on war

If we justify war,it is because all people always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed,not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.-Ruth Benedict(1887-1948)

Good quote from Ruth Benedict

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.-Ruth Benedict(1887-1948)

Quote from Mark Twain

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.-Mark Twain

Quote from Ruth Benedict

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.-Ruth Benedict(1887-1948)

Quote from General George S.Patton

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.-General George S.Patton,American General in World War I and II,(1885-1945)

Interesting quote on happiness

The trouble is not that we are never happy -it is that happiness is so episodical.-Ruth Benedict(1887-1948)

Positive quote from Ruth Benedict

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.-Ruth Benedict(1887-1948)

Quote from Imelda Marcos

I hate ugliness.You know I'm allergic to ugliness.-Imelda Marcos

Quote from Ruth Benedict

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.-Ruth Benedict

Another quote from Imelda Marcos

It's the rich you can terrorize.The poor have nothing to lose.-Imelda Marcos

Great quote from Ruth Benedict

We do not see the lens through which we look.-Ruth Benedict(1887-1948)

Quote from Imelda Marcos

'Nouveau riche' is better than ' no riche'.-Imelda Marcos

Provocative quote from Imelda Marcos

I was born ostentatious.They will list my name in the dictionary someday.They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.-Imelda Marcos(b.1929),Former First Lady of the Philippines

Quote from Edward Abbey

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious,complicated and opaque,it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.-Edward Abbey(1927-1989)

Interesting old quote on the cities of America

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious.The Bostonians take their learning too sadly;culture with them is an accompaniment rather than atmosphere;their "Hub",as they call it,is the paradise of prigs.Chicago is a sort of monster-shop,full of bustles and bores.Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.Baltimore is amusing for a week,but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial;and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.-Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people ,who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live,nor the smallest instinct about when to die.-Oscar Wilde

Quote from Tennessee Williams

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.-Tennessee Williams,American playwright(1911-1983)

Another quote from Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself.Historians repeat each other.-Philip Guedalla

Quote from Philip Guedalla

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.-Philip Guedalla

Great quote on critics

The critic has to educate the public;the artist has to educate the critic.-Oscar Wilde

Quote on aristocracy

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off;it may run about in a lively way,but in fact it is dead.-Nancy Mitford

Quote about biography

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history,on the south by fiction,on the east by obituary,and on the west by tedium.-Philip Guedalla,English historian(1889-1944)

Quote from Emile M.Cioran

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.-Emile M.Cioran

Quote on house work

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.-Erma Bombeck,U.S.humorist(1927-1996)