Ideas

"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it."     - Bill Nye ...

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.” - Ann Landers ...

"Your character is your fate." - Maya Plisetskaya ...

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it." - C.P. Snow ...

Our thoughts become our actions, and our actions become habits. Our habits then become the kind of person we are, and the kind of person you are decides the kind of life you choose to live." ...

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." - Walter Bagehot ...

"Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." - C.S. Lewis ...

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." - Frederick Douglass ...

“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 are not clothed. This world in arms is not ...

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” - Voltaire ...