Eric Butterworth

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

A man is as old as his arteries.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.