Sayings
The aspiration to truth is more precious than its assured possession.
Gotthold Lessing
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Saint Bernard, 12th Century Abbot of Clairvaux, France
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest; we must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis
You might be a little nervous...until you get going!
James 'Lugs' Brannigan, Dublin cop, boxer & referee, renowned for his toughness and fairness.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
Truth is the child of time.
Immanuel Kant
If you want something done, always ask a busy man.
W. J. Kennedy, Inspector of Schools for Lancashire and the Isle of Man in Britain, 1856.
I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right to say it.
Voltaire, Evelyn Beatrice Hall et al.
Just because I don't agree with you, does not mean that I hate you; we need to relearn that in our society.
Morgan Freeman
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan
Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
Frank Zappa
First, they fascinate the fools, then they muzzle the intelligent.
Bertrand Russell, when asked how fascism starts.
You can't help noticing that the ones doing all the talking about listening are doing all the talking.
Brendan Kilcoyne
A man who misuses an apostrophe is capable of anything.
Con Houlohan, Irish Sports Columnist (1925-2012)
The more we learn, the more we realise how little we know.
Albert Einstein, Buckminster Fuller
Stupid never sleeps.
Popular
Everyday's a schoolday.
Popular
Everyone has a right to be foolish if they think it wise.
Dr Daniel Mannix, Former Archbishop of Melbourne (1864-1963)
Fear brings anger to the tongue; a friend speaks to the heart.
Kung Fu (TV Series) as adapted from Taoist teachings.
When a programmer becomes indispensible, it's time to get rid of him.
Gerald M. Weinberg
A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind.
Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde
When all you have is a hammer, all you see is nails.
Abraham Maslow
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
Ronald Reagan
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.
Henry Royce