OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

Raymond Chandler (one of my favorite authors--I've read everything he wrote):

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Source: http://www.qotd.org/search/single.html?qid=42747

One wonders what he would have said about Twits on Twitter and the Zuckerborg.

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world. ~ Kirk Douglas

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.– Frederick Douglass,

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother. ~ Fred Rogers

A "United States" was only possible if men could agree to disagree about a great many things. What was expedient for them is, however, an essential of liberty. Theoretically, it might be desirable for all men to agree on everything, though I doubt it. Practically, such agreement would only be possible if all individual wills were crushed and subjected to a single will. The effort to do this is always in the direction of the well traveled road to despotism. The alternatives are agreement to disagree or despotism.– Clarence B. Carson

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. ~ Edwin Way Teale

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.– Will Durant

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ Mark Twain

A life without festival is a long road without an inn. ~ Democritus

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~ Frederick Douglass

The individual who practices integrity is teachable for, by definition, he is a Truth seeker.– Leonard E. Read

There is always the need to carry on. ~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ~ Stendhal

:~$ fortune
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
                -- Robert G. Ingersoll

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~ William Lloyd Garrison

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I've made a few posts and it still says my posts number = 851. Is there a counter bug? Anyone else have this issue?