Al’s Quotes and Quips for February
- People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” (Dagobert D. Runes, quoted in The Village Voice)
- “Saving is a very fine thing. Especially if your parents have done it for you.” (Winston Churchill, quoted in the Cardiff, U.K. Western Mail)
- “Even the right decision is the wrong decision if it is made too late.” (Lee Iacocca, quoted in Guided by Grace)
- “Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.” (Ayn Rand)
- “Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give, but dreadfully uneasy to take.” (Josh Billings, quoted in JerusalemPost.com)
- “It is impossible to go through life without trust. That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all—Oneself.” (Graham Greene, quoted in The Wall Street Journal)
- “All right, they’re on our left… they’re on our right… they’re in front of us… they’re behind us! They can’t get away this time!” (Lieutenant General Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions).
- “Hard work spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” (Sam Ewing)
- “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in… and how many want out.” (Tony Blair, quoted in theMontreal Gazette)
- “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” (William Gibson, quoted in the Sacramento News & Reviews)
- “There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: Those who constantly divide the people in the world into two classes and those who don’t.” (Robert Benchley quoted by Steve Brown in What Was I Thinking)
- “Of all marvelous things, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.” (Charles Caleb Colton)
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: One of my favorite quotes by the late Dr. Jerry Falwell: “You will be tomorrow what you are today, apart from the books you read; what you listen to; and the people you associate with.”
Read that quote one more time…
Now consider: What books have you been reading and who have you been associating with lately?
