{"id":310,"date":"2010-11-19T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-11-20T00:15:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:15:05","slug":"more-collected-quotes-from-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/310\/quotes\/more-collected-quotes-from-the-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"more collected quotes from the archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem. -Malcolm Forbes <\/em> <\/p>\n

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -Abba Eban <\/em><\/p>\n

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it. -Emerson Pugh <\/em><\/p>\n

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -Alexander Pope<\/em> <\/p>\n

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. -Vicomte de Chateaubriand<\/em><\/p>\n

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite. -John Kenneth Galbraith <\/em> <\/p>\n

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. -Edith Nesbitt <\/em> <\/p>\n

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. -Mahatma Gandhi <\/em> <\/p>\n

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. -Leonardo da Vinci<\/em><\/p>\n

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. -Robert Louis Stevenson<\/em><\/p>\n

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life. -John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (1837-1921)<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. -Charles de Montesquieu <\/p>\n

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard <\/p>\n

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. -William S. Burroughs <\/p>\n

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. -Hubert H. Humphrey <\/p>\n

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. -Jean Jacques Rousseau <\/p>\n

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -Oscar Wilde<\/em><\/p>\n

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -Aldous Huxley<\/em><\/p>\n

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. -John Kenneth Galbraith<\/em><\/p>\n

Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source. -Ron Nesen<\/em><\/p>\n

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. -unknown<\/em><\/p>\n

Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even. -Horace<\/em><\/p>\n

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. -Socrates<\/em><\/p>\n

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. -Saint Jerome<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem. -Malcolm Forbes History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -Abba Eban If the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}