Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. At least it's supposed to be...I'm still trying to get back in the swing of keeping up with two blogs--How did I do it before?

But, in the meantime, Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

I've got a mixed bag today....a little bit funny and a little bit serious:

Campbell’s Law: A sinner can reform, but stupid is forever.

—Lt. Colonel William P Campbell III

Losing a loved one, uncertainty about what we are—these are deprivations that give rise to our worst sufferings. We may be idealists, but we need what is tangible. It is by the presence of persons and things that we believe that we recognize certainty.

But does it truly matter what we lack when what we have is not used up? So many things are susceptible of being loved that surely no discouragement can be final. To know how to suffer, to know how to love, and, when everything collapses, to take everything up once more, simply the richer from suffering, almost happy from the awareness of our misery.

—Albert Camus

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world where children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

—Camus [This was one of Robert F Kennedy's favorite quotations.]

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

—Thomas Carlyle

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates, I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

—Dale Carnegie