Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.


Edward Albee

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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY
For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER
Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON