Impromptu Topics
2013 Northrop Novice Round Robin
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Queen Elizabeth I
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it
shows by endurance what it is capable of. - Seneca
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be
felt with the heart. - Hellen Keller
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of
others. - Dag Hammarskjld
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live
in a city without walls. - Epicurus
I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity – in
all things, generosity. - George Herbert Walker Bush
There's no jealousy in the grave. - Rudyard Kipling
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith
Newbold Jones Wharton
By far the best proof is experience. - Francis Bacon
I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims
available for the predations of the criminal class. - David Mohler
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national
government too. - Richard Milhous Nixon
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string. - Persian Proverb
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there
divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. - Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. - Alen Coren
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him. - Lao Tzu
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. - Robert Frost
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer.
That's the answer. - Gertrude Stein
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. - Anthony Burgess
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them. James Oliver
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any
national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - Abraham Lincoln
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music. - Agnes de Mille
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy
reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. - Saint Basil
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy. - Miguel de Cervantes
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut
our eyes - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you
meet is your mirror. - Ken Jr. Keyes
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the
separateness and integrity of one's own self. - French Proverb
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. - J Danforth Quayle
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. - T. S. Eliot
Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go
walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. - Philip K. Dick
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. - Mohammad
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. - Georges Guynemer
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is
worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. - Will Rogers
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and
the fragments of stupidity. - Vartan Gregorian
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage. - Danish proverb
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To
be a moment's ornament. - William Wordsworth
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. - Andre Maurois
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers
--not excuses. - William Arthur Ward
It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. - Greek Proverb
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Francois
Marie Arouet Voltaire
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him Whose - Donald Robert Perry
Marquis
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I
am of what is true. - Robert Brault
A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation. Unknown
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Phillip Earl Stanhope
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. - Bertolt Brecht
Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke. – Eliot
Wiggington
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. - Max Karl Ernst
Ludwig Planck
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. - Tove Jansson
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. - Dwight D Eisenhower
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, for therein
lies the true power. - Unknown
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. Whitney Moore Young
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out,
as good for nothing. - Samuel Johnson
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh,
innocent. - J. Krishnamurti
Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets
for their self-importance. - Jean Anouilh
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is
an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stephenson
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. - Marie Curie
Lord, what fools these mortals be - William Shakespeare
He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields
with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. - Horace