Hatred: the First Reaction to Truth

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If anyone in a discussion with us is not concerned with adjusting himself to truth, if he has no wish to find the truth, he is intellectually a barbarian. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

The first reaction to truth is hatred. – Tertullian

Truth hath a quiet breast. – William Shakespeare

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. – John Fletcher

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear. – Henry David Thoreau

No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You cannot conceive the many without the one. – Plato

Gold Makes the Flag of Law Dance to its Tune

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Law is a flag and gold is the wind that makes it wave. – Russian proverb

There is no man so good who, were he to submit his thoughts to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers. – William Shakespeare

The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty, and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of management. – Richard Tanner Pascale and Anthony G. Athors

Learning is discovering that something is possible. Fritz Perls

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. – Confucius

To teach is to learn twice. – Joseph Joubert

Hain't We Got all the Fools on our Side?

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Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat’s ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there. – Andrew Mercer

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? – Mark Twain

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. – William Shakespeare

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. – Thomas Fuller

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. - Charles P. Steinmetz

No man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. – William Shakespeare

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Who Told Us that Ethics had anything to do with Economics?

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The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. – Harry Weinberger

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. – Margaret Culkin

To mourn mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on. – William Shakespeare

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. – Friedrich Nietzshe

A clever theft was praiseworthy among the Spartan; and it is equally so amongst Christian, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale. – Herbert Spencer

Ethics is not a branch of economics. – Yerachmiel Kugel

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott

There are Some Things that Rats just Won’t Do

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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. – William Shakespeare

Bulls do not win bull fights.
People do.
People do not win people fights.
Lawyers do. - Norman R. Augustine

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. – Lord Henry Peter

The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer. – Henry Kissinger

There are three reasons why lawyers are being used more and more in scientific experiments. First, every year there are more and more of them around. Second, lab assistants don’t get attached to them. And, third, there are some things that rats just won’t do. – anonymous

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

A peasant between two lawyers is a fish between two cats. – Spanish proverb

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost always be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. – Will Rogers

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He Makes Deserts Bloom and Lakes Die

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When Fortune means to men most good, she looks upon them with a threatening eye. – William Shakespeare

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he’ll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. – Charlie Haas

Man is a complex human being; he makes deserts bloom and lakes die. – Gil Stern

Another advantage of being rich is that all your faults are called eccentricities. – anonymous

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. – Frank McKinney

Better to be nouveau than never to have been riche at all. – anonymous

I’d like to be rich enough so that I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off. – Andy Rooney

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