| "Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." »Louis |
| "I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908" »Mark Twain |
| "The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." »Sallust |
| "I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves." »William Ellery Channing |
| "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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