Blacklion Blog

INSATIABLE CURIOSITY

blacklionblog — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:18:03 +0000

The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this,and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demand,

Oscar Wilde

BELIEVING LIES

blacklionblog — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:08:32 +0000

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Malcolm Muggeridge

ACTION

blacklionblog — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:27:37 +0000

Action speaks louder than word, but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

IMAGINATION and SENSE of Humor

blacklionblog — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:19:46 +0000

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Frances Bacon

TRUE HEROISM

blacklionblog — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:45:17 +0000

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all the others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

PARANOIA

blacklionblog — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:25:27 +0000

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you

Kurt Cobain

LOOK LIKE A LADY

blacklionblog — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:19:46 +0000

Your dress should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.

Edith Head

ANGER

blacklionblog — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:14:47 +0000

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

APATHY

blacklionblog — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:05:41 +0000

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Socialism

blacklionblog — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:44:58 +0000

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others socialism.

Earl Warren