Random Quotations
"An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because it is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
John Gardner, Excellence, 1961
"A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that."
Louis L'Amour
"He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe