Past Wednesday Writing Exercises--Quotations



January 2, 2002-
N/A

January 9, 2002-
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

January 16, 2002-
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
--George Santayana, Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner's, 1905, p. 284

January 23, 2002-
"Pick up the mantle you've been given in life, and wear it well."
--Jim Carrey

January 30, 2002-
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
--William Jennings Bryan

February 6, 2002-
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February 13, 2002-
N/A

February 20, 2002-
"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
--Samuel Johnson

February 27, 2002--
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
----John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn

March 6, 2002--
"Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves."
----Ovid

March 13, 2002--
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
----Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"

March 20, 2002--
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
----Oscar Wilde

March 27, 2002--
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
----Sean O'Casey

April 3, 2002--
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
----Don Herold

April 10, 2002--
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
----Epictetus

April 17, 2002--
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
----T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

April 24, 2002--
"The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave."
----James A. LaFond-Lewis, November 11, 1999

May 1, 2002--
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
----Mahatma Gandhi

May 8, 2002--
"I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no,
Its letter perfect in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew."
----Janet Minor

May 15, 2002--
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
----Anonymous

May 22, 2002--
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
----Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 29, 2002--
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
----Mark Twain

June 5, 2002--
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
----Sir Arthur Helps

June 12, 2002
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
----Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

June 19, 2002
"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child."
----Forest Witcraft

June 26, 2002
"Knowledge is power."
----Francis Bacon

July 3, 2002
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
----Arthur C. Clarke

July 10, 2002
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
----Walt Disney

July 17, 2002
"When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt."
----Henry J. Kaiser

July 24, 2002
"The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether."
----Max Percy

July 31, 2002
"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."
----W.H. Auden

August 7, 2002
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."
----Elaine Agather

August 14, 2002
"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way."
----Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

August 21, 2002
"Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity."
----Harold J. Seymore

August 28, 2002
"Only the educated are free."
----Epictetus

September 4, 2002
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
----Oscar Wilde

September 11, 2002
N/A

September 18, 2002
"JUDGE, n: A law student who marks his own papers."
----H.L. Mencken

September 25, 2002
"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
----Abraham Lincoln

October 2, 2002
"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
----Charlie Parker

October 9, 2002
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
----J. Russel Lynes

October 16, 2002
"Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man."
----Sir Theodore Martin

October 23, 2002
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
----David Russell

October 30, 2002
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November 6, 2002
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
----M. Scott Peck

November 13, 2002
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November 20, 2002
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November 27, 2002
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December 4, 2002
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December 11, 2002
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December 18, 2002
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December 25, 2002
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