fish philosophy quotes

Consider the man on horseback, and I have been a man on horseback for most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man, however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the true sense of Nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerations of specialized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a tyrant. ~R.A. Lafferty, "Interurban Queen," 1970, a short story set in the late 1800s (Thanks, Sam!)



Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. ~Author Unknown



If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ~Thomas Hardy



It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Mirror of Erised," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ~Will Rogers



Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. ~Michel de Montaigne



If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith



If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison



Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown



The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. ~Robert Maclver



All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull



In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ~Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, 1948



Poetry is life distilled. ~Gwendolyn Brooks



The road to success is wherever people need another road. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern." ~Anonymous Belfast resident, quoted in London Guardian, 1991



If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dogen



In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. ~Author Unknown



No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson