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Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), Quaker prison reformer and philanthropist
Reason is the life of the law.
No, the law itself is nothing else but reason.
Edward Coke
I've knowingly helped a number of guilty men.
But what they must pay me
is punishment enough for anyone.
Lee Bailey, lawyer
A lawyer will do anything to win.
Sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray (1956- ), English screen actor
To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face four ways
in court, to win men forgiveness.
Roger Ascham (c. 1515-1568), English scholar and writer
A man between two lawyers
is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790), inventor, statesman, and philosopher
A lawyer can rob more
than a thousand men can with guns.
Mario Puzo (1920-1999), American author and screenwriter
Bad rules are the worst leaders.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish stateman and philosopher
in a speech at Bristol, prior to the Late Election (1780)
Rules were made to be broken.
Christopher North (John Wilson), (1785-1854), Blackwood’s Magazine
(April, 1829), ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ number 49
55. Freedom
Oh Freedom,
what liberties are taken in your name!
Daniel George (details unknown)
Stone walls do not a prison make,
and metal bars do not make a cage.
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658), English poet, To Althea, from Prison
As we are liberated from our own fears,
we liberate others.
Nelson Mandela (1918- ), former President of South Africa
No one can be perfectly free
if all are not free.
No one can be perfectly good
if all are not good.
No one can be perfectly happy
if all are not happy.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English biologist and political theorist,
Social Statics (1850), part 4, chapter 30
Over time, and across the Earth,
freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush (1946- ), 43rd President of the United States
speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
The history of free men is never really written
by chance, but by choice; their choice!
Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), army general & 34th U.S. President
I disagree with what you say, but I will fight
to the death to protect your right to say it.
Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer, historian, philosopher
We think birds in cages are singing,
but the truth is that they are crying.
John Webster (c. 1580-c. 1625), English dramatist
The White Devil (1612), act 5, scene 4
Liberty is always business that is not finished.
Title of annual report of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1956
All human beings are born free and equal.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
They are slaves
who fear to speak for the weak.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), American poet, critic, and diplomat
Slavery is against the laws of God
and the rights of men.
David Hartley (17-5-1757) English philosopher,
and founder of the associationist school of psychology
56. Animals
The more one gets to know of people,
the more one likes dogs.
A. Toussenel (1803-1885), French writer, L’Esprit des bêtes (1847)
From troubles of the world, I turn to ducks.
Beautiful laughable things.
F. W. Harvey (1888-1957), English poet
A cat will look down on a man.
A dog will look up to a man.
But a pig will look you straight in the eye
and see his equal.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), former British Prime Minister
A dog is for life, and not just for Christmas.
National Canine Defence League
Good people think about
the feelings of their animals.
The Bible, Proverbs 12:10
57. Music and Art
My music is best understood
by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian composer, Observer, 8 Oct. 1961
Music, the greatest good that humans know,
And all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English writer and politican
Whether I was in my body or out of my body
as I wrote it, I know not. God knows.
George Frederick Handel, of the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ in his Messiah
Music is feeling, not sound.
William Stevens (1879-1955), American poet,
Peter Quince at the Clavier (1923), part 1
Why should the devil have all the good music?
Rowland Hill (1744-1833), English preacher
I dream my painting and then paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch painter
Art is a jealous mistress.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American writer and lecturer
As the body cries for food,
the hair cries for flowers.
Author unknown
Better the rudest work
that tells a story or records a truth,
than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), English art critic and philanthropist
It is interesting, but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), English writer,
The Conundrum of the Workshop, 1892
Artists can colour the sky red,
but those of us who aren’t artists
must colour things the way they really are
or people might think we’re stupid.
Jules Feiffer (1929- ), American syndicated cartoonist
The artist is not a different kind of person;
every person is a different kind of artist.
Eric Gill (1882-1940), British scuptor
Every artist puts his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American preacher and abolitionist
Dance is a rhyme,
of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari (1876-1917), Dutch exotic dancer
A dance is measured walking,
as a rhyme is measured talking.
Author unknown
58. Travel
A trip is best measured in friends,
rather than miles.
Tim Cahill, travel expert
A good traveller has no plans that he cannot
change and is not deeply interested in arriving.
Lao Tzu, founder of Taoism (about 500 BC)
When you travel, remember that a foreign
country is not there to make you comfortable.
It is there to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999), American author and media personality
There is always something new out of Africa.
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Roman author, Natural History
A traveller without observation
is a bird without wings.
Moslih Eddin Saadi (1184-c. 1283), Persian poet
The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French revolutionary military hero
A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884), American writer and artist
When you’re travelling,
you are what you are right there and then.
People don’t have your past to hold against you.
No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon (1939- ), American travel writer
of part Osage Nation origin
The world is a book;
those who do not travel read only one page.
St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), Roman philosopher and theologian
No one knows how beautiful it is to travel
until he comes home
and rests his head on his own pillow.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
Chinese writer and inventor
Travel is a part of learning.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English lawyer & statesman, Of Travel
I do not travel to get to a place.
I travel to travel.
The important thing is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist and writer,
Travels with a Donkey (1879), ‘Cheylard and Luc’
59. Change
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright
The key to why things change
is the key to everything.
James Burke (1936- ), British author, TV producer, and historian
A new broom
sweeps clean.
Irish proverb
Nothing carries more power to change
than little acts of human kindness.
Jamie Winship, American missionary and writer
Vision without action is just a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker, American public speaker and video maker
In this world nothing can be said to be sure,
apart from death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790), inventor, statesman, philosopher
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.
He wants to change the world.
When he is seventy he still wants to change the
world, but he knows he can't.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), American lawyer
Can the leopard change its spots?
The Bible, Jeremiah 13:23
We all want to change others;
but who wants to change himself?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer and Christian anarchist
Change your thoughts and change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American minister and author
To change your thinking,
and follow one who shows new truth,
makes you no less free than you were
before hearing the new truth.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD), Roman emperor from 161 AD
Meditations book 8, section 6
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Jesus, Matthew 3:2
If you put new wine into old wineskins,
the skins will explode.
You must put new wine
into new wineskins.
Jesus, Matthew 9:17
Nothing is more dangerous than a plan,
when you do not have a second one.
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier), (1868-1951), French philosopher ,
journalist and pacifist, Propos Sur la Religion (1938), number 74
The bamboo survives
by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee (1940-1973), Chinese actor,
director and martial artist
Sometimes in the winds of change
we find our true direction.
Author unknown
60. Computers and other Inventions
The question of whether a computer can think
is no more interesting than the question of
whether a submarine can swim.
E. W. Dijkstra (1930-2002), Dutch computer scientist
There is not a flower or bird to be seen,
only a small window on which lines are moving,
while the child sits without moving,
pushing at the keyboard with one finger.
No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song.
John Davy, on arguments against teaching through computers
The danger from computers is not that they will
one day get as smart as men, but that we will
one day agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai (1949- ), Israeli writer and business consultant
You can use the best computers
to gather the numbers,
but in the end you have to set a time and act.
Lee Iacocca (1924- ), American businessman
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story.
It can give you the right numbers,
but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American composer, singer, film director
I shall make electricity so cheap that only the
rich will have enough money to burn candles.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931), inventor and scientist
In all big companies, there is a fear
that someone, somewhere is having fun
with a computer on company time.
John C. Dvorak (1952- ), American columnist and broadcaster
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
Peter Steiner, cartoonist, The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that
think, and afraid of men who try to.
H. Mumford Jones (1892-1980), American writer, literary critic,
and professor of English at Harvard University
I find television very good for learning things.
Every time someone turns it on
I go into another room and read a good book.
Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film star
There is no need for any one person
to have a computer in their home.
Ken Olson (1926-2011), American engineer,
and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp.
I think there is a world market
for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson (1874-1956), chairman of IBM, 1943
Heavier-than-air flying machines
are impossible.
William Thomson (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist
Men travel faster now,
but I do not know if they go to better things.
Willa Cather (1843-1947), American novelist who wrote of frontier life
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together,
but it takes only one of them
to destroy it on the highway.
Evan Esar (1899-195), American humourist, Esar's Comic dictionary
61. Humility
Being perfect is reached,
not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de St. Exupery (1900-1944), French writer and aviator
If you have put your foot in your mouth,
it is probably not the time to try to dance.
R.M. Lynch (details unknown)
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner (1938- ), American media mogul and philanthropist
He that lifts himself up will be put down,
and he that humbles himself will be lifted up.
Jesus, Luke 14:11
The only true wisdom
is knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher
Anger makes many problems for you.
Pride stops you from fixing them.
Anonymous
A proud spirit goes before a fall.
The Bible, Proverbs 16:18
I know nothing
but that I know nothing.
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher,
in Diogenes' Lives of the Philosophers, book 2
It is difficult to find a person
who can weigh the weaknesses of others
without putting his finger on the scales.
Byron J. Langenfeld, details unknown
You will not grow at all
if you think you know it all.
Anonymous
If you help others, forget it.
If others help you, remember it.
Chilon (c. 6th Century BC), one of the seven sages of Greece
62. Leftovers
History repeats itself.
Author unknown
A place for everything,
and everything in its place.
Mrs. Beeton (1836-1865), Book of Household Management (1861)
What is the town if not the people?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Coriolanus act 3, scene 3
The world is made of stories, not atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), American poet and poltical activist
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.
Let us hold close one special day.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.
Grace Noll Crowell (1877-1969), American poet
They bite the hand that feeds them.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish stateman and philosopher
Don't be too sweet, or they will eat you up.
Don't be too bitter or they will vomit you out.
Jewish proverb
Three o'clock is always too late or too early
for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French writer, philosopher
and activist, Nausea (1938)
If you go shopping when hungry, you are likely
to buy things that you do not need.
American Heart Association Cookbook
How different, how very different
from the home life of our own loved Queen!
comment overheard at a performance of Cleopatra
by Sarah Bernhardt, 1924
This is quite a three-pipe problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Sherlock Holmes
Why should you mind being wrong
if someone can show you that you are?
A. J. Ayer (1910-1989), British philosopher
Be not overcome of evil,
but overcome evil with good.
The Bible, Romans 12:21
Someone, somewhere, wants a letter from you.
slogan for the British Post Office
Maybe, just maybe.
slogan for the British National Lottery
If you want to get ahead, get a hat.
slogan for The Hat Council
A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
line with all the letters of the alphabet in it
The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
The Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:26
All is well that ends well.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright
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