A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.
----------H. L. Mencken
April 6 2006, 15:27:46 UTC 6 years ago
Pah...rubbish!
April 9 2006, 12:34:15 UTC 6 years ago
April 7 2006, 07:48:40 UTC 6 years ago
April 9 2006, 12:34:43 UTC 6 years ago
April 9 2006, 12:58:16 UTC 6 years ago
April 7 2006, 07:50:38 UTC 6 years ago
"A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
April 9 2006, 12:35:16 UTC 6 years ago