More quotes of note

I collect quotes.   They come from many places.   Many of them come from the quote of the day page of The Quotations Page–it’s my browser’s home page.   Here is a sampling of quotations that I’ve especially enjoyed over the past two months:

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright (1955 – )

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)

“Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”
— Thomas Edison

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop (620 BC – 560 BC)

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; be careful of those who find it.” – Andre Gide

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), (attributed)

“Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief — resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.”
–Abraham Lincoln. From the July 1, 1850 [?] Notes for a Law Lecture

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)

If you don’t know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.
David Peterson

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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