When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Francis Bacon
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. Denis Diderot
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves. Rush Limbaugh
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions. Noah Webster
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. Demetri Martin
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. Renata Adler
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. Otto von Bismarck
I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me. Kate Clinton
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. John Ruskin
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. John Ruskin
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. Anne Lamott
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. Thomas Fuller
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? Henry Louis Gates
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. Tallulah Bankhead
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. Willa Cather
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. Calvin Coolidge
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. Luther Burbank
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. Andy Warhol