{"id":10778,"date":"2012-08-04T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2012-08-04T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T05:01:07","slug":"sharing-quotables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/sharing-quotables\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing quotables…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love, and collect, and often share wise words and quotations. The following showed up a while back as I was rummaging through some paper-stacks that lay relatively undisturbed for years in my somewhat-organized home library\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I quote others only the better to express myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Michel de Montaigne<\/span><\/a> (1533-1592)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We are no more than God\u2019s imagination about himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Thomas Mann (1875-1955)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The world is a tragedy to those who feel,<\/p>\n

but a comedy to those who think.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Horace Walpole (1717-1797)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A child of five would understand this.<\/p>\n

Send someone to fetch a child of five!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Groucho Marx (1890-1977)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Albert Einstein<\/span><\/a> (1879-1955)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To him who is in fear, everything rustles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Socrates (469 BC-399 BC)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Education is when you read the fine print.<\/p>\n

Experience is what you get if you don\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Pete Seger (1919\u2014\u00a0 )<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Everything has been thought of before\u2014<\/p>\n

the problem is to think of it again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014French proverb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Many a scarecrow serves as a roost of the enlightened crow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014(unknown)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The man who can\u2019t visualize a horse<\/p>\n

galloping on a tomato is an idiot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Andr\u00e9 Breton (1896-1966)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Please feel free to share with me the quotations that touch your own soul, tickle your fancy, or blow your mind, OK? You can contact me here<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love, and collect, and often share wise words and quotations. The following showed up a while back as I was rummaging through some paper-stacks that lay relatively undisturbed for years in my somewhat-organized home library\u2026 I quote others only the better to express myself. \u2014Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) I respect faith, but doubt is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}