#wit

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ↗

— John Locke

#always #any #because #common #new

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#continent #easy #imported #luxury #necessity

A goal without a date is just a dream. ↗

— Milton H. Erickson

#dream #goal #just #without

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#discipline #marine #without

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#20th-century #polygraph #tests #witchcraft

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

#angeles #ann #bug #cold #cold weather

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

#despair #humanity #lies #perish #without

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#delirious #doctors #insane #lacks #man

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#cannot #doctor #his #inversely #man