My Favorite Quotes Three

"No traveler comes easily to a lost village . . . "

– Maurice Beresford

"Slowly now, nice neat letters:

the point is to do things well,

not just to do them."

– Antonio Machado

"We have become a new kind of man, whose very physical identity is defined by a thing called the market, not by community . . . "

– Ivan Illich

"A stranger is a friend we haven’t met yet."

– Dali Lama

If you can walk you can dance.

If you can talk you can sing.

– Zimbabwean Proverb

"The hell with health. It’s a new addiction."

– Evan Linch, De-Schooling America

"And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home."

–Wendell Berry

"My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."

–Henry Youngman

A hop farmer’s wife

Leads a hell of a life

Of poverty, hunger, and fear.

Her man sweats away youth

At labor uncouth

So the rest of the world can drink beer.

–Traditional Folk Song

"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."

–Epictetus, Roman philosopher & former slave, Discourses

"Ubi dubium ibi libertas."

( Where there is doubt, there is freedom. )

–Latin Proverb

"All systems are evil. All governments are evil. Not just a trifle evil. Monstrously evil."

– John Gardner, Grendel

"The stranger said it so calmly, so softly, that it was impossible to laugh. He believed every word he said. I understood at last the look in his eyes. He was insane."

– John Gardner, Grendel

More: "Buy a Man with suffering?"

Rich: "Impose suffering, and offer him--escape."

More: "Oh. For a moment I thought you were being profound."

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

Margaret: "Father, that man's bad."

More: "There is no law against that."

Roper: "There is! God's law!"

More: "Then God can arrest him."

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

Roper: "So now you give the Devil the benefit of the law!"

More: "Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?"

Roper: "I'd cut down every law in England to do that!"

More: "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

Cromwell: "You look depressed."

Rich: "I'm lamenting. I've lost my innocence."

Cromwell: "You lost that some time ago. If you've only just noticed, it can't have been that important to you."

--Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

"Not all who wander are lost."

– J.R.R. Tolkin

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."

– St. Augustine

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

– George Bernard Shaw

"The question is not so much whether there is life on mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth."

– Anonymous