"Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by their use."

-- Ivan Illich

"The truth is more important than the facts."

  

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
 
-- James Thurber

"There's a time for joking around and a time to be serious; this is not one of them."   

--Anonymous

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

-- G.K. Chesterton

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." 

-- Tom Stoppard

"The family is the cornerstone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

"I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that 'a gentleman does not cheat,' than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers." 

-- C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it."

 

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at."  

-- Carlos A. Urbizo

“The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.”

-- George MacDonald

"Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand . . wi' a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Aye. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it . . . Ah but there'll be no butter in hell!"

-- Amos Starkadder, in the novel Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, author)

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."  

 

-- Evan Esar

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." 

 

-- Abraham Lincoln

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts...”

-- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists." 

 

-- Jean Rostand

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." 

-- Charles de Gaulle

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

"He observed that the people drinking alcohol would just get drunk and sing and be jolly, whereas the people drinking coffee remained sober and plotted against the government."

-- Stewart Allen