sojourner truth quotes

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate



Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success. ~Jim Backus



Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990



The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~H.L. Mencken



So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A.J. Reb Materi, Our Family



It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. ~Nicholas P. Negroponte



Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~B.K.S. Iyengar



Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. ~Gil Stern



Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. ~Benito Perez Galdos



An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. ~Bergen Evans, "A Tale of a Tub," The Natural History of Nonsense



Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb



Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith



It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor



Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker



Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~P.J. O'Rourke



The smart cat doesn't let on that he is. ~H.G. Frommer



A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain