PODUNK TAVERN : Quotes

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.Quotations from various sources illuminating our common wisdoms and values. Current as of 17Jul2016        

Tavern Quotes

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
-Edward Gibbon

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.
-Gene Brown in Danbury, Conn., News-Times

Smooth seas do not make skillfull sailors.
-African proverb

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
-William Allen White

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-Benjamin Disraeli

A different language is a different vision of life.
-Federico Fellini, quoted by Mary Cantwell in New York Times

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
-P.J. O'Rourke, A Parliament of Whores (Atlantic Monthly

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason, M.D.

He not busy being born is busy dying.
-Bob Dylan (Special Rider Music)

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
-African Proverb

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
-John Lubbock

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
-Pablo Casals

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-Jeanne Moreau

The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuation, disturbances, imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.
-Margaret J. Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science(Berrett-Koehler)

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
-Carl Sandburg

The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you can see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.
-Joe Kogel

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
-Thomas Paine

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
-St. Augustine

Regardless of who speaks it, a truth is still a truth, and a lie is still a lie.
-JEC

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
-Bette Davis, The Lonely Life (Putnam)

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.
-Winston Churchill

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
-Deepak Chopra, M.D., Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (Harmony)

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
-Frederic Bastiat

In the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see--and what we see is life.
-Robert Penn Warren

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
-Margaret Mead

To base thought only on speech is to try nailing whispers to the wall. Writing freezes thought and offers it up for inspection.
-Jack Rosenthal in New York Times Magazine

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
-Nelson Mandela

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
-Elie Wiesel, quoted by Harry Stein in New Choices

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins-not through strength but by perseverance.
-H. Jackson Brown, A Father's Book of Wisdom (Rutledge Hill)

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson

Life deals with other issues. People determine fairness.
- JEC

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
-Paul E. Gray in Technology Review

We learn only when its too late that the marvel is the passing moment.
-Francous Mitterand

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
-Ellen Goodman, Turning Points (Doubleday)

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
-quoted by DamonJim

The key to a locked door may be merely a knock.
-Glister Parsec

Understand your friends and enemies, and all those who aren't.
-JEC

Men don't like to be that honest about love: to put the gun in a woman's hand, and hold it against their own hearts, and say, Here, this is how you kill me.
-Gregory David Roberts, in Mountain Shadow

Well I tried to drown my sorrows ... but they learned to swim
-Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish, from Rolled and Tumbled on their CD The Dance

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