Favorite Quotations
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Daily Famous Quotations
Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
David Searls
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Stanislaus Lescynski
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
Edwin H. Land
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
Good food ends with good talk.
Maya Angelou
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Unknown
It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
David Searls
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Stanislaus Lescynski
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
Edwin H. Land
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
Good food ends with good talk.
Maya Angelou
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Unknown
It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
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Today's Quotes
Anonymous
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
Things do not change; we change.
James Webb
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Pablo Picasso, last words
Drink to me.
Kurt Vonnegut
One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Dbjanski
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Ira Glasser
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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Anonymous
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
Things do not change; we change.
James Webb
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Pablo Picasso, last words
Drink to me.
Kurt Vonnegut
One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Dbjanski
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Ira Glasser
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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Quotations for Today
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars'
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Brother Theodore
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Albert Einstein
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.
Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
C. S. Lewis
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars'
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Brother Theodore
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Albert Einstein
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.
Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
C. S. Lewis
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Great Famous Quotes
Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)
A big book is a big bore.
Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Helen Gurley Brown
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
B. J. Gupta
Poor are poor because rich are rich.
George Herbert Walker Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Anon.
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk
J.W. Schopf
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
Yoshida Kenko
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
Ben Azai
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
George Santayana
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)
A big book is a big bore.
Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Helen Gurley Brown
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
B. J. Gupta
Poor are poor because rich are rich.
George Herbert Walker Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Anon.
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk
J.W. Schopf
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
Yoshida Kenko
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
Ben Azai
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
George Santayana
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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Great Famous Quotes
Amos Tversky
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
God's Little Instruction Book
If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything.
H. Ross Perot
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Gay
Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest.
John Updike
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
African Proverb
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
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Famous Quotes:
Amos Tversky
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
God's Little Instruction Book
If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything.
H. Ross Perot
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Gay
Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest.
John Updike
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
African Proverb
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
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