Bobcat Goldthwait Scrooged Quotes & Sayings

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. — Bernard Malamud

Losing is never just by itself a loss... — Angela Suba

In 1778, Jefferson presented to the Virginia legislature "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge," in which he argued that all forms of government could degenerate into tyranny. The best way of preventing this, he wrote, is "to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large." The study of history could serve as an especially effective bulwark, allowing the people to learn how to defeat tyranny from past examples. Jefferson would return again and again to the importance of education in a democracy. — Fareed Zakaria

When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of
fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo.
So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students. — Toshitsugu Takamatsu

On solemn festivals, Julian, who felt and professed an unfashionable dislike to these frivolous amusements, condescended to appear in the Circus; and, after bestowing a careless glance on five or six of the races, he hastily withdrew with the impatience of a philosopher, who considered every moment as lost that was not devoted to the advantage of the public or the improvement of his own mind. — Edward Gibbon

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured — Thomas Paine

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her. — Orson Scott Card