Some literary siglines for your pleasure tonight - please share any I've missed! If you like the quote, the kog's link will connect you to their profile.
(-6.25, -4.62)
"Education is not the filling of a pail; but the lighting of a fire."
WB Yeats
by bamajunky
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons ~ Emerson
by mooshter
Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away. -- Boethius*
by seenaymah
"there's time for naught but bold resolves." John Barth
by lovespaper
You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift
by A Mad Mad World
"What if everybody thought like you?"
"Then I'd be a damn fool to think otherwise."-- Catch 22
by Johnny Q
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
by conlakappa
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!
-Battle cry of the Nac Mac Feegle (via Terry Pratchett)
by fnord warrior
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. ~ H.L. Mencken
by Jay Elias
Our promises are made in proportion to our hopes, but kept in proportion to our fears.-LaRouchefoucauld
by luvsathoroughbred
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
-- Sinclair Lewis, 1935
by Living in Gin
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
by OHeyeO
"Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power." - William Shakespeare
by Rockpopple
"indifference is the one thing that makes the very angels weep."-Cornel West
by misreal
I used to be Snow White. And then I drifted. - Mae West
by CherryTheTart
I preach the church without Christ, where the lame don't walk, the blind don't see and what's dead stays that way! Flannery O'Connor
by chalatenango
"There are so many people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of" ~Hyrum Graff, Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card
by k8dd8d
"She was very young,he thought,...she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing." -1984
by aggressiveprogressive
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?'
- 1984
by MinistryOfTruth
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
by MrSandman
Freedom without responsibility is license and not liberty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Bionic
Fortune favors the audacious. -Desiderius Erasmus
by Kyle the Mainer
-7.62, -7.28 "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes
by luckylizard
"Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgement."
- Duc De La Rochefoucauld
by Andhakari
"Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging." - Luther
by Cartoon Messiah
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver, 'The Summer Day'
by Airmid
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann (and btw, the bike in kayakbiker is a bicycle)
by Kayakbiker
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
by khloemi
-8.50, -7.64 "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer." - Camus
by croyal
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas B. Macaulay
by Amber6541
One day posterity will remember, this strange era, these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
by RandomActsOfReason
"I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats." - Eckhart Tolle
by catnip
Language is wine upon the lips.
-Virginia Woolf
by valadon
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." -Elie Wiesel
by BlueTape
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common." Dorothy Parker
by dedmonds
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
by webranding
If nothing is very different from you, what is a little different from you is very different from you.
Ursula K. Le Guin
by northsylvania
"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave." - Thucydides
by JasperJohns