Serbonian Bog Quotes & Sayings

The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans? — Bill Maher

The English nation is never so great as in adversity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. — David Korten

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ... — Benjamin Constant

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire. — John Milton

Forgive but punish bad behavior, reward the good ones and celebrate the victories and lessons learned. — Ben Tolosa