Should anybody be looking for a dedication quote or two, here are a few from my quotation file that seem to fit the spirit of Fenspace...
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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)
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and
concluded, "This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger
than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be
even greater than we dreamed."
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In
Space
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to
have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself
in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me.
- Sir Isaac Newton, Memoirs of Newton, v. II, ch. 27
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small,
large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good
sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming
might of the enemy.
- Winston Churchill, in a speech at Harrow, 29 October 1941
Taking anything too seriously is as big a threat as not taking it
seriously enough.
- Berke Breathed, in an interview with Scott Kurtz, 19 February
2001
The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really
a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the
lightning.
- Mark Twain, letter to George Bainton, 15 October 1888
The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own
good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of
theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the
Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan, Brocas's Brain
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to
laugh at him.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
When I was ten, I read fairytales in secret and would be ashamed if I
had been found doing so - Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When
I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of
childishness and the desire to be very grown-up.
- Clive Staples Lewis, On Stories, from Essays
Presented to Charles Williams, 1947
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough
- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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)
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and
concluded, "This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger
than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be
even greater than we dreamed."
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In
Space
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to
have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself
in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me.
- Sir Isaac Newton, Memoirs of Newton, v. II, ch. 27
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small,
large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good
sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming
might of the enemy.
- Winston Churchill, in a speech at Harrow, 29 October 1941
Taking anything too seriously is as big a threat as not taking it
seriously enough.
- Berke Breathed, in an interview with Scott Kurtz, 19 February
2001
The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really
a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the
lightning.
- Mark Twain, letter to George Bainton, 15 October 1888
The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own
good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of
theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the
Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan, Brocas's Brain
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to
laugh at him.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
When I was ten, I read fairytales in secret and would be ashamed if I
had been found doing so - Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When
I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of
childishness and the desire to be very grown-up.
- Clive Staples Lewis, On Stories, from Essays
Presented to Charles Williams, 1947
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough
- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012