Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Famous Quotations for Today
Rita Rudner
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
V. P. Skipper
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Tertullian
He who flees will fight again...
William Blake
To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Carl Jung
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
Margaret Cho
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
Edmund Wilson
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Robert Fulghum
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. ¶ 2:57 PM
Today's Famous Quotations:
Rita Rudner
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
V. P. Skipper
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Tertullian
He who flees will fight again...
William Blake
To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Carl Jung
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
Margaret Cho
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
Edmund Wilson
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Robert Fulghum
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. ¶ 2:57 PM
