Froemming Park Quotes

#1. When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#2. At first I wondered why the room felt so safe. Then I realized it was because there were no windows.

Sylvia Plath

#3. I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

Saul Williams

#4. After wisdom comes wit.

Evan Esar

#5. I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

Clive Anderson

#6. I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Robert Walpole

#7. I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

Elvis Costello

#8. Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving ... conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

John Dewey