The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination. – The War Cry
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. – Omar Bradley
Speed kills colour… the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. – Paul Morand
Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. – Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons
We feed on the world in increasingly desperate attempts to compensate for feelings of incompleteness, separation, and alienation. This is a sorry way to live. – Ken McLeod, Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. – George Boas
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein
Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. – Thurman Arnold
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. – Lady Bird Johnson
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. – Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. – Ronald Firbank
Anyone else tired of how media eats your brain? – Daniel, @blindedpoet
We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. – Robert C. Pollock
What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. – Aldous Huxley, Island
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. – Will Rogers
Fame consists in dying in action and getting your name misspelled on the casualty lists. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. – John Haynes Holmes
