February 27, 2005

Quotes:

Quotes for the moment

    By Jack Grant

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
   -Edith Sitwell

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
   -Robert Anton Wilson

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
   -Ambrose Bierce

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

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
   -Benjamin Franklin

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
   -John Adams, Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, December 1770

Posted by Jack Grant at 10:36 on 27 February 2005
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