|
From the Archives • December 2000 
|
 |
Man-machine identity is achieved not by attributing human attributes to the machine, but by attributing mechanical limitations to man.
Mortimer Taube
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Franklin P. Jones
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion
to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
Archibald Cox
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles.
John Mason Brown
America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughn
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Democratic Party is like a mule - without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity.
Edmund Burke
The Democratic Party can always be relied on to make a damn fool of itself at the critical time.
Ben "Pitchfork" Tillman
The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.
Harry S. Truman
Every Republican candidate for President since 1936 has been nominated by the Chase Nation Bank.
Robert A. Taft
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point that the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
Page Top • The Morgue • Current
|
