Monday, April 18, 2005

Quotations #052

"If an aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." -- Stanley Garn

"If everyone contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera." -- John Rich

"Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong." -- Earl of Mansfield

"A smattering of philosophy had liberated his [Nero's] intellect without maturing his judgment." -- Tacitus

"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people." -- Hubert H. Humphrey

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