Quote of the day

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If common sense was lard, most people wouldn't be able to grease a pan.

- Grannie Clampett

 

Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian.
Not any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

 

Work to me is a sacred thing.

Margaret Bourke-White,
photographer

 

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Robert Ingersoll

 

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Robert Ingersoll

 

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Socrates

 

How relevant for today!

 

“Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." - Spock

 

“Because the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.” - James T. Kirk

 

The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross,
psychiatrist

 

"Everybody is born ignorant. You have to work really hard to remain stupid." Ben Franklin

 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius

 

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..
– W. C. Fields

 

We're slow to believe what it hurts us to believe.

Ovid,
poet

 

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary

Reinhold Niebuhr

 

USA Today had a great page today just full of quotes in preparation for President's Day coming up.

The following are some favorite quotes from my fellow Unitarians and one Unitarian wannabe (Jefferson, but the Bible he created falls in line with Unitarian Principles):

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, or inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts.

President John Adams


Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

President John Quincy Adams


I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

President Thomas Jefferson​

 

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington,
first US president

 

"That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."

George Orwell

 

I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner