Category: Thoughtful Quote Thursday


“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
- Dr. Seuss

McCabe’s Law

“McCabe’s Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.”
- Charles McCabe

I saw this on Barbara’s Facebook a while back, and believe it is appropriate to share here:

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in.”
- Bradley’s Bromide

“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.”
- Unknown

“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.”
- Franklin P. Jones

Humor

“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
- T. S. Eliot

Killing

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
- Voltaire

“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

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