Thursday, March 25, 2010

Thoughtful Thursday

"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself."
- John Milton

"If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father."
- Jean de La Bruyere

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"
- Mark Twain

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
- Samuel Johnson

"In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."
- Baron Henry Brougham

"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."
- J. G. Pollard

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