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Unworthiness |
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Quotations
 | Three professors- Homeland is lost. Drei Professoren - Vaterland verloren! — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 19 likes |
 | The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 17 likes |
 | Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 13 likes |
 | I make it a point never to argue with people for whose opinion I have no respect. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 12 likes |
 | There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 9 likes |
 | When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 8 likes |
 | I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 8 likes |
 | He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (on British Labour politician Stafford Cripps) 7 likes |
 | There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is the President of the Republic. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 7 likes |
 | The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 7 likes |
 | Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 7 likes |
 | If you have no Enemies, it’s a sign Fortune has forgot you. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 7 likes |
| A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
| Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (on the new Prime Minister Clement Attlee,1946) 5 likes |
 | There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 5 likes |
 | Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 5 likes |
 | Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 5 likes |
| Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 5 likes |
| We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (on Ramsay MacDonald, he first Labour Party Prime Minister) 4 likes |
 | A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
| A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | The bourgeois are the others. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 4 likes |
| The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 4 likes |
 | Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 4 likes |
| Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
| There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | I fired MacArthur because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 3 likes |
 | Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
 | It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Teach a parrot the terms “supply and demand”, and you've got an economist. |
| One monster there is in the world, the idle man. |
 | It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities, it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash. |
| The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality. |
 | Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker. |
 | Yes, I’m free, said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom. |
 | One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary |
 | Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. |
 | One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. |
| He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him. |
 | The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. |
 | Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. |
 | Something that everyone knows isn’t worth anything. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. |
 | Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. |
 | The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. |
 | Man is a monster of inconsistency. |
 | B students work for C students. A students teach. |
| The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
| I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. |
 | Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism. |
 | Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down. |
Funny Quotes
 | A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
 | He’s out of his depth on a wet pavement. |
 | She said I wasn’t sponge-worthy. Wouldn’t waste a sponge on me. |
Ancient Greek
 | Now begins a river of words and a trickling of sense. Άρχεται λέξεων μεν ποταμός, νου δε σταλαγμός. — Theocritus, 3rd cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet (on one of his opponents who was about to make a public speech) 9 likes |
 | The very rich are not good. Ουκ εισίν οι παμπλούσιοι αγαθοί. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 9 likes |
 | Horrible voice, bad breeding, vulgar manners, you have everything you need to be a politician. Φωνή μιαρά, γέγονας κακώς, αγοραίος εί, έχεις άπαντα προς πολιτείαν ά δει. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Knights 7 likes |
Proverbs
 | All hat and no cattle. 4 likes |
 | A man who cannot harm, cannot help either. 3 likes |
