Some of Gabes' other pages:

• A
  Henry Adams
  Alfred Adler
  Mortimer Adler
  Maya Angelou
  Susan B. Anthony
  Apocrypha
  Arab Proverb
  Moshe Arens
  Richard Armour
  Louis Armstrong
  Matthew Arnold
  
• B
  Francis Bacon [4]
  Cecil Baxter
  Henry Ward Beecher
  Yogi Berra
  Ann Besant
  William Blake
  Erma Bombeck [2]
  Phyllis Bottome
  Gerald Brennan
  Thomas Browne
  Pearl S. Buck
  Edmund Burke
  Daniel H. Burnham
  Samuel Butler
  
• C
  James Branch Cabell
  David Campbell
  William S. Carlson
  Thomas Carlyle [3]
  Sebastian-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
  Raymond Chandler
  Lord Chesterfield
  Chinese Proverb [2]
  Winston Churchill
  Ramsey Clark
  Joseph Conrad
  
• D
  Edgar Degas
  Thomas Drummond
  John Dryden
  "Dune" ( other movies )
  
  Duke Leto Atreides
  
  Paul Atreides
  

  E
  Amelia Earhart [2]
  Thomas Edison
  Albert Einstein
  Cato the Elder
  T. S. Eliot
  Ralph Waldo Emerson [6]
  English Proverb[4]
  Euripides
  

  F
  Henry Ford
  Anne Frank
  Benjamin Franklin [3]
  Sigmund Freud
  Sonya Friedman
  Thomas Fuller
  

  G
  German Proverb [2]
  Edward Gibbson
  Heber J. Grant
  

  H
  Joseph Hall
  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  Horace
  Lena Horne
  James Howell
  Elbert Hubbard
  Victor Hugo
  

  I
  Robert G. Ingersoll [2]
  J
  William James [2]
  Jewish Proverb
  Samuel Johnson
  Ben Jonson
  Michael Josephson
  

  K
  Henry J. Kaiser
  Immanuel Kant
  Helen Keller
  Sophie Kerr
  So/ren Kierkesgaard
  

  L
  Ann Landers
  Frederick Langbridge
  Stephen Lealock
  G. C. Lichtenberg
  Walter Lippmann
  Long's notes
  Henry W Longfellow
  Louis XVIII
  James Russell Lowell
  Florence Luscomb
  

  M
  General.Douglas Macarthur
  R. Alec MacKenzie
  James Mackintosh
  Shirley Macline
  Giuseppe Mazzini
  Marilyn Monroe
  Michel de Montaigne [3]
  George Moore
  John Morley
  Movies
  

  "Dune" index
  

  "Princess Bride" index
  

  "Terminator" index
  

  N
  Louise Nevelson
  Eleanor.Holmes Norton
  

  O
  Ovid
  

  P
  Blaise Pascal
  J. H. Patterson
  Phaefrus
  Plautus
  Princess Bride ( other movies )
  

  Wesley

  R
  John Ray
  Dennis Roth
  Jean-Jaques Rousseau
  W. Royster
  

  S
  George Santayana [2]
  Arthur Schopenhauer
  Charles Schulz
  Seneca
  Shakespeare [4]
  

  Shakespeare, Othello
  George Shelley
  Samuel Smiles
  Logan Pearsall Smith
  Walter Smith
  Susan Sontag
  Sophocles
  Benedict de Spinoza
  Abel Stevens
  Publilius Syrus [2]
  

  T
  Elizabeth Taylor
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  Mother Teresa
  "Terminator" ( other movies )
  

  Connor, John
  Edward Thomas
  Henry David Thoreau
  James Thurber
  Lily Tomlin
  

  V
  Marquis de Vauvenargues
  

  W
  Barbara Walters
  Paul Dudley White
  Alfred North Whitehead
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Steven Wright
  

  Anonymous
  Anonymous [3]
  

"Choas often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
Henry Adams Opposing view

"Be not curious in unnecessary matters."
Apocrypha Opposing view

"For knowledge, too, is itself power."
Francis Bacon Opposing view

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator."
Francis Bacon Opposing view

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
Francis Bacon Opposing view

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
William Blake Opposing view

"The latest Gospel in this world is Know thy Work and do it... Blessed is he who has found his work."
Thomas Carlyle Opposing view

"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
Raymond Chandler Other Funny quotes

"Property has its duties as well as its rights."
Thomas Drummond Opposing view

"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."
John Dryden Opposing view

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
T. S. Eliot Opposing view

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Opposing view

"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Opposing view

"Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie."
English Proverb Opposing view

"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."
English Proverb

"First deserve, and then desire."
English Proverb

"Kings have long arms, but misfortune longer; let none think themselves out of reach."
Benjamin Franklin Opposing view

"Necessity never made a good bargain"
Benjamin Franklin Opposing view

"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please."
Benjamin Franklin Opposing view

"You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice."
Sonya Friedman Opposing view

"Praise makes good men better and bad men worse."
Thomas Fuller Opposing view

"When the fox preaches, look to the geese."
German Proverb Similiar view

"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."
Edward Gibbson Opposing view

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
Elbert Hubbard Opposing view

"An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do."
Michael Josephson Opposing view

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
So/ren Kierkesgaard Looking for an opposing view

"Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse."
G. C. Lichtenberg Opposing view

"Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He might not have one."
Long's notes Similiar view

"Know how sublime a thing it is, To suffer and be strong."
Henry W. Longfellow Opposing view

"Procrastination of vital tasks is a close relative of incompetence and a handmaiden of inefficiency."
R. Alec MacKenzie Opposing view

"If I could know me, I could know the universe."
Shirley Macline Corresponding view (To know the universe is to know oneself.)

"I quote others only in order to better express myself."
Michel de Montaigne Opposing view

"The great and glorius masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
Michel de Montaigne

"The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it."
Michel de Montaigne

"There is no reason to repeat bad history."
Eleanor Holmes Norton Similiar view

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Jean-Jaques Rousseau Opposing view

"Money can't buy you happiness, but wouldn't you like to find out for yourselves?"
W. Royster Opposing view

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana Similiar view

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval"
George Santayana

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal, but by degrees."
Shakespeare, Othello Opposing view

"A place for everything and everything in its place."
Samuel Smiles Opposing view

"Theres are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
Logan Pearsall Smith Opposing view

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates Opposing view

"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
Susan Sontag Opposing view

"Without labor nothing happens."
Sophocles Opposing view

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."
Puplilius Syrus Opposing view

"Fate is not what is but what we make."
John Connor to mother, "Terminator" Opposing view

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Alfred North Whitehead Opposing view

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opposing view

Please send comments to gabriel@freenet.msp.mn.us.