Thursday, January 03, 2008
Great Famous Quotes
Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
W. Somerset Maugham
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Gore Vidal
Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.
Benny Hill
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
Eric Anderson
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
Bulgarian Proverb
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes-Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Brendan Francis
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Elayne Boosler
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers. ¶ 12:28 AM
Famous Quotes:
Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
W. Somerset Maugham
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Gore Vidal
Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost.
Benny Hill
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
Eric Anderson
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
Bulgarian Proverb
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes-Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde was
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Brendan Francis
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Elayne Boosler
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers. ¶ 12:28 AM
