Quotes - July 27, 2010

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thank you Stephen for the quotes.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.
-- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008