Quotes Du Jour

�Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.�
- W. H. Auden (1907 � 1973), Anglo-American poet: �The Dyer�s Hand�, 1962.

�In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority that to be right alone.�
- J. K. Galbraith (b. 1908), American economist: in �The Guardian� (London), July 28, 1989.

�I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.�
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 � 1968), American actress: �Tallulah�, 1952.

�A �just war� is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.�
- Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941), Anglo-Irish journalist: in the �New Statesman & Society� (London), February 9, 1991.

�There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.�
- John Adams (1735 � 1826), 2nd President of the United States of America: �Notes for an Oration at Braintree, Massachusetts�, Spring 1772.