A.P. Herbert Quotes
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
