Favorite Quotations
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Today's Quotes
Sarah Orne Jewett
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
Saint Augustine
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
Quentin Crisp
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. ¶ 6:42 PM 0 comments
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Sarah Orne Jewett
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
Saint Augustine
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
Quentin Crisp
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. ¶ 6:42 PM 0 comments
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 0 comments
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 0 comments
Great Quotations
Dutch Proverb
He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Author Unknown
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Henry David Thoreau
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
Sir Walter Besant
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Paul Brown
A winner never whines. ¶ 11:43 AM 0 comments
Quotations:
Dutch Proverb
He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Author Unknown
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Henry David Thoreau
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
Sir Walter Besant
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Paul Brown
A winner never whines. ¶ 11:43 AM 0 comments
Quotes Update
Bill Vaughan
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
Sir William Bragg
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Bertrand Russell
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Mark Twain
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. ¶ 10:36 AM 0 comments
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Bill Vaughan
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
Sir William Bragg
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Bertrand Russell
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Mark Twain
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. ¶ 10:36 AM 0 comments
