May 2, 2008
"When I was young I thought that money was the most
important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." -
Oscar Wilde
May 1, 2008
"More people, on the whole, are humbugged by knowing nothing, than by
believing too much." - P. T. Barnum
April 30, 2008
"The price of
greatness is responsibility."
-
Winston Churchill
"The virtues, like the
Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found
solitary in any breast." -
Buddha
April 28, 2008
"Men occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry
off as if nothing had happened."
-
Winston Churchill
April 27, 2008
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be
called." - John Stuart Mill
April 26, 2008
"Prophecy is the wit of a fool." - Vladimir Nabokov
April 25, 2008
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all
other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
April 24, 2008
"To understand
everything makes one very indulgent."
-
Madame de Stael
April 23,
2008
"If nonviolence is the law of
our being, the future is with the women." - Mahatma Gandhi
April 22, 2008
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over
again, there is no use in reading it at all." -
Oscar Wilde
April 21, 2008
"In
politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or
the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
-
Charles de Gaulle
April 20, 2008
"There are
deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give
a fair and complete idea of the country."
- Andre Maurois
April 19, 2008
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - Earl Weaver
(born 1930), former Baltimore Orioles manager
April 18, 2008
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is
one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." - Sydney J. Harris
April 17, 2008
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our
prayers." -
Oscar Wilde
April 16, 2008
"Too few rejoice at a
friend's good fortune." -
Aeschylus
April 15, 2008
"If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't
amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels
swearing I was right would make no difference." - Abraham Lincoln
April 14, 2008
"Only when a man's
life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy."
-
Aeschylus
April 13, 2008
"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh
meaning for every new social situation." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
April 12, 2008
"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love
one another." - Jonathan Swift
April 11, 2008
"Take from me the hope that I can change the future, and you will send
me mad." -
Israel Zangwill, English dramatist (1864-1926)
April 10, 2008
"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a
world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - U.S. Army Gen. Omar N. Bradley
April 9, 2008
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat
overestimated his ability." -
Oscar Wilde
April 8, 2008
"In war, you win or lose, live or dieand
the difference is just an eyelash." -
U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur
April 4, 2008
"I didn't invent the world I write aboutit's
all true." - Graham Greene
April 3, 2008
"One can acquire
everything in solitudeexcept character."
-
Stendhal
April 2, 2008
"Speech happens to not
be his language." -
Madame de Stael
April 1, 2008
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable,
those that are movable, and those that move." - Arab proverb
March 31, 2008
"Success consists of
going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
-
Winston Churchill
March 30, 2008
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it
about other
people." - Virginia Woolf
March 29, 2008
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Journalist
Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961)
March 28, 2008
"Old age is far
more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the
game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The
true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the
soul." -Andre Maurois
March 27, 2008
"To be free from evil
thoughts is God's best gift."
-
Aeschylus
March 26, 2008
"Uninterpreted truth is as useless as buried gold." - Lytton Strachey
March 25, 2008
"Not to be able to grow old is just as ridiculous as to be unable to
outgrow childhood." - Carl G. Jung
March 24, 2008
"If you think of
paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured." -
Stendhal
March 23, 2008
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." - C.S. Lewis
March 22, 2008
"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the
mediocrities." -
Oscar Wilde
March 21, 2008
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous." - Robert Ingersoll,
lawyer and politician (1833-1899)
March 20, 2008
"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to
temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it
requires strength, strength and courage to yield to." -
Oscar Wilde
March 19, 2008
"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown
helpless about them." - Clare Boothe Luce
March 18, 2008
"We are stripped bare
by the curse of plenty." -
Winston Churchill
March 17, 2008
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In
your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
-
Oscar Wilde
March 16, 2008
"The destruction of each man is to be found in the pity he saves for
himself." - Norman Mailer, The Gospel According to the Son
March 15, 2008
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." - Livy
March 14, 2008
"To be idle is a short
road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are
idle, wise people are diligent."
-
Buddha
March 13, 2008
"Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone." - Miguel de Cervantes
March 12, 2008
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they
are." - Bertholt Brecht
March 11, 2008
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but
timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the
present."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
March 10, 2008
"When one is willing
and eager, the Gods join in."
-
Aeschylus
March 9, 2008
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being
called an idea at all." -
Oscar Wilde
March 8, 2008
"God loves to help him
who strives to help himself."
-
Aeschylus
March 7, 2008
"To govern
is always to choose among disadvantages."
-
Charles de Gaulle
March
6, 2008
"To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized
man." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
March 5, 2008
"The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything.
Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences." - D. H.
Lawrence
March 4, 2008
"Remember your theories well, but forget them when you touch the miracle
of the human soul." - Carl Jung
March 3, 2008
"True genius resides
in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting
information." -
Winston Churchill
March 2, 2008
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his
friends." -
Oscar Wilde
March 1, 2008
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger." - Paul Klee
February 29, 2008
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire
February 28, 2008
"All that is human must be retrograde if it does not advance." - Edward
Gibbon
February 27, 2008
"A true friend stabs you in the front." -
Oscar Wilde
February 26, 2008
"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human
freedom." - British philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
February 25, 2008
"God always strives
together with those who strive."
-
Aeschylus
February 24, 2008
"Success is going from
failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."
-
Winston Churchill
February 23, 2008
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by
money."
- Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1892-1954)
February 22, 2008
"Search for the truth
is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty."
-
Madame de Stael
February 21, 2008
"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action." - Adlai E.
Stevenson
February 20, 2008
"I am not young enough to know everything." -
Oscar Wilde
February 19, 2008
"People who love animals / once loved people." - Howard Brook
February 18, 2008
"It is no use saying,
'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is
necessary."
-
Winston Churchill
February 17, 2008
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a
fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could
walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
- Tommy Douglas (Canadian Provincial Premier)
February 16, 2008
"Call no man happy
till he is dead." -
Aeschylus
February 15, 2008
"Out of intense
complexities intense simplicities emerge." -
Winston Churchill
February 14, 2008
"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason." - C. S.
Lewis
February 13, 2008
"Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural
fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." - Francis
Bacon (from On Death)
February 12, 2008
"The greatest
happiness is to transform one's feelings into action."
-
Madame de Stael
February 11, 2008
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best
in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath
rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect." - Francis Bacon
(from Of Beauty)
February 10, 2008
"Perhaps it is better
to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong." -
Winston Churchill
February 9, 2008
"In every tyrant's
heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a
friend." -
Aeschylus
February 8, 2008
"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline." - O. A. "Bum"
Phillips
February 7, 2008
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." -
Aristotle
February 6, 2008
"Politics in America is the binding secular religion." - Theodore H.
White
February 5, 2008
"Kites rise highest
against the windnot with it."
-
Winston Churchill
February 4, 2008
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true
kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be
more, and to do more." -
Oscar Wilde
February 3, 2008
"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other." -
William Faulkner
February 2, 2008
"It is a good thing
for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." -
Winston Churchill
February 1, 2008
"I never travel without my diary. One should always
have something sensational to read in the train."
-
Oscar Wilde
January 31, 2008
"Never, never, never
give up." -
Winston Churchill
January 30, 2008
"The latest
refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."
-
Winston Churchill
January 29, 2008
"Whatever words we
utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be
influenced by them for good or ill."
-
Buddha
January 28, 2008
"It is a profitable
thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
-
Aeschylus
January 27, 2008
"We cease loving
ourselves if no one loves us." -
Madame de Stael
January 26, 2008
"If men could
regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would
frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they
failed to obtain." -
Andre Maurois
January 25, 2008
"His resolve is not to
seem the bravest, but to be." -
Aeschylus
January 24, 2008
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
-
Oscar Wilde
January 23, 2008
"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise." - English politician Henry
Broadhurst (1840-1911)
January 22, 2008
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving
taxi cabs and cutting hair."
- George Burns
January 21, 2008
"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor." - Letitia Landon
January 20, 2008
"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears."
- Rudyard Kipling
January 19, 2008
"I'm not afraid of
storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." -
Aeschylus
January 18, 2008
"I like to learn, but I do not always like to be taught." - Winston
Churchill
January 17, 2008
"It is in the
character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has
prospered." -
Aeschylus
January 16, 2008
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were
of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing
that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in
silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill
January 15, 2008
"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we
live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have
guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 14, 2008
"Work out your own
salvation. Do not depend on others."
-
Buddha
January 13, 2008
"God's greatest gift to man is decency of
mind." - Aeschylus
January 12, 2008
"Never
relinquish the initiative." -
Charles de Gaulle
January 11, 2008
"Neither a life of
anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in
the middle a god has given excellence." -
Aeschylus
January 10, 2008
"One must, in one's
life, make a choice between boredom and suffering."
-
Madame de Stael
January 9, 2008
"Sure I am of this,
that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to
save yourselves." -
Winston Churchill
January 8, 2008
"Pleasure is
often spoiled by describing it." -
Stendhal
January 7, 2008
"Whenever a man makes
haste, God too hastens with him." -
Aeschylus
January 6, 2008
"It is good even for
old men to learn wisdom." -
Aeschylus
January 5, 2008
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -
Oscar Wilde
January 3, 2008
"Since long I've held
silence a remedy for harm." -
Aeschylus
January 2, 2008
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