Kurmudgeons Quotes & Sayings

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments — Salvador Dali

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience. — Rick Warren

I don't correct anyone's grammar unless they're under five. — Mary Jane Hathaway

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. — Kevin Bacon

RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about to delete the RAW files but decided to play with the curves first because I like the composition. It turned out that the image, although underexposed by two stops, was better than the fill-flashed images because the fire was the only source of illumination and it looked more real. — Peter Menzel

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest. — Henry Ward Beecher

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless. — Confucius

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors. — Douglas Hurd

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate). — Frederic Bastiat