Judgement

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see the good qualities before pronouncing on the bad.

Thomas Carlyle

For John McCain

Macho does not prove mucho.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

No More Weekly Wit

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Miller

Hmm...

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

Alfred North Whitehead

Awkward Truth

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Hallow it Selectively

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

Oft-forgotten Fact

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

The Meek ...

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln

Modesty Required

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

When Not To Speak

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Listen !

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon

"Normal"

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

Verbal Abuse matters

...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Woodrow Wilson