Sand River Sage

Fools

2015-02-08T13:46:00.002-08:00

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

More Unemployment

2015-02-08T13:42:00.002-08:00

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians
--Edward Langley,
Artist (1928-1995)

Thieves

2015-02-08T13:40:00.001-08:00

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop

Stand for Something

2015-02-02T18:13:00.003-08:00

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

~ Winston Churchill

Well Meaning

2014-11-06T21:01:00.002-08:00

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal,well meaning but without understanding - Louis D. Brandeis

Religion of Solitude

2014-06-27T14:00:00.001-07:00

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

~ Aldous Huxley

Sour Grapes, Maybe?

2013-12-03T17:07:00.002-08:00

"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

~ Albert Einstein

Whose Job?

2013-01-15T16:54:00.000-08:00

General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America.

The General said, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function... OUR job is to arrange the meeting."

Sense

2012-12-19T09:10:00.000-08:00

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."
~ Albert Einstein

Idea Origins

2012-12-01T16:48:00.001-08:00

"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
- Albert Einstein

Argument

2012-11-21T17:16:00.002-08:00

"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
~ Robert Quillen

Unnecessary

2012-11-16T14:43:00.003-08:00

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
- Fred Allen

Change

2012-11-14T17:42:00.003-08:00

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
~ Woodrow Wilson

Inadequate Constitution

2012-11-05T06:44:00.000-08:00

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

What Matters

2012-11-01T09:15:00.003-07:00

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ability

2012-10-19T10:25:00.003-07:00

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
- Confucius

Just Imagine

2012-09-14T13:16:00.000-07:00

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

Excessive Credit

2012-07-31T20:03:00.000-07:00

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit
for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."
- Lowell Thomas

Dangerous People

2012-07-25T18:17:00.000-07:00

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein

Make Up Your Mind

2012-07-19T17:45:00.001-07:00

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who
never make up their minds to be good or evil."
- Hannah Arendt

Thinkers

2012-06-28T18:42:00.000-07:00

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
- Jean de la Bruyere

Slavery

2012-04-09T14:17:00.002-07:00

"There are two ways to enslave a country, one is by sword the other is by
debt." John Adams

Life's Tough

2012-03-13T09:07:00.000-07:00

"Life's tough, Pilgrim, it's tougher when you're stupid" The Duke

Harmful

2011-11-18T18:20:00.000-08:00

Like the well-meaning, a warm wind often blows harm disguised.

Think

2011-10-27T10:34:00.000-07:00

Instead of teaching people what they should think, just teach them to think for themselves.