Friday, August 19, 2011

Smile for Today:
Culture

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
~ Joe Ancis

"There is a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
~ Charles M. Schulz

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
~ Laurens van der Post

"The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. . . His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.' "
~ H. L. Mencken

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
~ Ayn Rand

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
~ Booker T. Washington

Source: Treasure of Wit & Wisdom, Reader's Digest, 2006.