Thursday, December 27, 2007
Great Quotes
Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
Hell is other people.
Paul Val�ry
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
J. William Fulbright
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Arabic Parable
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Thomas H. Huxley
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
Cicero
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
Michel de Montaigne
No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Kyle Schmidt
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Johann von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Lewis Mumford
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ¶ 8:32 PM
Straight to the Quotes ...
Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
Hell is other people.
Paul Val�ry
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
J. William Fulbright
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Arabic Parable
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Thomas H. Huxley
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
Cicero
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
Michel de Montaigne
No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Kyle Schmidt
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Johann von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Lewis Mumford
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ¶ 8:32 PM
