Five Crock of Shit Quotations

Heard about this from Kevin Drum. I'll play:

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Not such bad advice if you're Mozart, but pretty crummy advice if you're George W. Bush.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
Susan Glasee, The Visioning, 1911

Human Rights Watch says some prisoners in Uzbekistan might disagree with you, Susan.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius

Rubbish. Following this advice is a recipe for neurosis.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
David M. Ogilvy

Spoken like a man preparing to sell something. Orwell pretty much hit it when he said that all propaganda lies, even when it's telling the truth.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Henry, meet the mirror.