Quotes
Quotes - Harris
Brer Fox, he lay low.
Ez soshubble ez a baskit er kittens.
Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.
Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.
Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Counter-culture's glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to achieve a revolution by consciousness for two thousand years. Who would deny that Christian consciousness could have changed the world? Yet it was the world that changed Christian consciousness. If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, noncompetitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-cultureâwe could have the Kingdom of God.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
