William Petty, Lord Shelburne Papers - Notes on this collection held at the University of Michigan. Includes biographical information, scope and contents.
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Petty, William "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Petty, William
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Petty, William "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Petty, William
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Petty, William Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Petty, William
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Petty, William Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Petty, William
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Petty, William "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Petty, William
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Petty, William Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Petty, William
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Petty, William Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Petty, William
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Petty, William When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Petty, William
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Petty, William Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Petty, William
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Petty, William "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Petty, William
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Petty, William "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Petty, William
