Quotes to Ponder
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well
to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can
be taught."
-Oscar Wilde
"He is
not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
-William Shakespeare
"I remember, the players
have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing,
(whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been,
would he had blotted a thousand."
-Ben Jonson
"I believe
that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not
because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but
because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and
endurance."
-William Faulkner
"Concentration
of economic power in all-embracing corporations... represents private
enterprise become a kind of private government unto itself—a regimentation
of other people's money and other people's lives."
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Every
gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies
in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those
who are cold and not clothed.
"This
world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of
its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of
threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Among
the many reforms which must be instituted before the theatre can progress
is the ostentatious and horribly painful execution of all people who
come in late."
-Robert Benchley
"Something like a necktie or
carpet."
-Wassily Kandinsky
