Jacopino Quotes & Sayings

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. — Bill Gates

Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea. — Lewis Carroll

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? — Christian Nestell Bovee

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying. — David Suzuki

There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land. — Prince Charles

The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it. — Henry Watson Fowler

If a sailor escapes with his life in a storm on the open sea, he will be grateful but soon forget his deliverance, Newton writes (no doubt looking back to the storm that nearly took his life). But even more permanently thankful will be the sailor who escapes storm after storm, swell after swell, near-death experience after near-death experience, and then after such an odyssey finally finds his way to safe harbor. — Tony Reinke

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. — Francois Guizot

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit. — Alan Cohen