Post 100 quotes that I like for whatever reason!

31. “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” Oscar Wilde

32. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Nietzsche

33. “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Gandhi

34. What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself” Mark Twain

23. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

24. “No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”

25. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

26. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

27. “I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with”

28. Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”

29. “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”

30. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

18. “The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”

19. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

20. “To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’”

21. “Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”

22. “The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.”

“In matters of taste, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
- Winston Churchill

“The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationship we have with ourselves.”
- Greg Anderson

7. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

8. A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

(I LOVE THIS ONE.)
9. On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. – Edward Gibbon

10. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. – Calvin Coolidge

11. No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power. – P. J. O’Rourke (1992)

12. Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. – Andre Marrou

13. When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. – Plato, 347 B.C.

Kindness is just love with it’s workboots on.

House Bunny! but its cute :)

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Proust