Favorite Quotations
Monday, December 31, 2007
Latest Famous Quotations
Robert Heinlein
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Lawrence Peter Berra
So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Peter de Gaston Levis
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
Susan Sontag
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Bias
Do not speak quickly it is a sign of insanity.
William Faulkner
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
Thornton
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Ashley Montague
"The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Rita Mae Brown
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotations:
Robert Heinlein
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Lawrence Peter Berra
So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Peter de Gaston Levis
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
Susan Sontag
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Bias
Do not speak quickly it is a sign of insanity.
William Faulkner
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
Thornton
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Ashley Montague
"The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Rita Mae Brown
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
Daily Quotes
Reinhold Niebuhr
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon
You can�t argue with all of the fools in the world. It�s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they�re not paying attention.
John Keats
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Chinese Proverb
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Unknown
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
William H. McNeill
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.
Henry Bromel
After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.
William E. Channing
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon
You can�t argue with all of the fools in the world. It�s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they�re not paying attention.
John Keats
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Chinese Proverb
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Unknown
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
William H. McNeill
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.
Henry Bromel
After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.
William E. Channing
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotations
Waldo Frank
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
Reverend John Vaughan, Financial administrator for the Archdiocese of Miami (when asked why they held stock in companies that ma
Obviously something slipped through here.
W. H. Auden
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
Zora Neale Hurston
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Alexander Pope
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Bertrand Russell
All movements go too far.
Frank Tyger
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Mary Wilson Little
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
Straight to the Famous Quotations ...
Waldo Frank
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
Reverend John Vaughan, Financial administrator for the Archdiocese of Miami (when asked why they held stock in companies that ma
Obviously something slipped through here.
W. H. Auden
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
Zora Neale Hurston
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Alexander Pope
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Bertrand Russell
All movements go too far.
Frank Tyger
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Mary Wilson Little
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotations for Today
Tom Robbins
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
John F. Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Cicero
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Ogden Nash, "The Pig"
The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.
Victor Borge
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
George Orwell, 1984
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
William Shakespeare
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Alexander Pope
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Anon.
That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
Here are the Famous Quotations ...
Tom Robbins
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
John F. Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Cicero
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Ogden Nash, "The Pig"
The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.
Victor Borge
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
George Orwell, 1984
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
William Shakespeare
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Alexander Pope
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Anon.
That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown ¶ 12:24 AM 0 comments
