“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
- Voltaire
Category: Thoughtful Quote Thursday
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
- Friedrich Engels
“Insisting on absolute safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.”
- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” (Unless it is Silver Ravenwolf….then yes, judge the cheese as it stands!)
- Tom Cyn
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
- Blaise Pascal
“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”
- Arthur Brisbane
“Speak when you are angry–and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
- Laurence J. Peter
“An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.”
- Jef Mallett
“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
- Wilson Mizner
“If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.”
- Agatha Christie

