James Husband

Hey, folks. I'm done here on former-Twitter. I am at james.w.husband on Threads, and I just signed in at historynuggets on Bluesky. The quotes will continue, plus maybe more in the future. Hope to see you there!

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.” — Agent K, "Men in Black"

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society." — Theodore Roosevelt

“The most deadly poison of our times is indifference.” — Saint Maximilian Kolbe

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.” — Ernest Hemingway

“The greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.” — Fred Rogers

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” — Arthur Murray

“Let us live, we must die.” — Seneca the Elder

“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.” — Dolly Parton

“People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” — Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.” — Terry Pratchett

“Never take advice from someone who is falling apart.” — Taylor Swift, "Dear Reader"

"Makeup can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if you're ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the makeup." — Audrey Hepburn

“It is far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.” — William L. Watkinson

“The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before.” — Mark Twain, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”

"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being." — Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

“The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It is wishful thinking.” — Barney Frank

“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.” — Miguel Cervantes

"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." — W. Edwards Deming

Don't be fooled by the radio, the TV, or the magazines. They show you photographs of how your life should be, but they're just someone else's fantasy. — Styx, "The Grand Illusion"