Monday, December 24, 2007
Daily Quotations
General Robert E. Lee
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
Persian Proverb
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
The rest is silence.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit.
Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Jean Kerr
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
William Butler Yeats
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Neil Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Old School
Frank Blue you're my boy ¶ 10:35 AM
Today's Quotations:
General Robert E. Lee
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
Persian Proverb
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
The rest is silence.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit.
Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Jean Kerr
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
William Butler Yeats
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Mignon McLaughlin
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Neil Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Old School
Frank Blue you're my boy ¶ 10:35 AM
