"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
-Benjamin Franklin
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grieveances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
-George Bernard Shaw
"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people."
-Mary S. Calderone
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves"
- William Pitt
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard
"There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton, in Vesalius in Zante
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."
-Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times Magazine, October 4, 1953
"Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"
-Jules Feiffer
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
-Grace Murray Hopper
Inventor of the usage "bug" for computer problems.
"If this entire universe has a desperate need of love to incarnate itself, then "important duties" which keep us from helping little people are not duties but sins."
-Frank C. Laubach
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
-George Bernard ShawAnother damn lying Cretan
"Mathematicians are a species of Frenchmen: if you say something to them they translate it into their own language and presto! It is something entirely different."
-Goethe
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."
-Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, "A Woman of Independent Means"
"We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country."
-C. S. Lewis
"Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen."
-Benjamin Franklin
Do you mind if I smoke?
-Oscar Wilde (to Sarah Bernhardt)I don't care if you burn.
-Sarah Bernhardt, in reply
This is the true measure of love,
When we believe that we alone can love,
That no one could ever have loved so before us,
And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
-Goethe
"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands."
- Saint Patrick
"If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant"
-Sefer Hasidim
The Bee's Last Journey to the Rose
I came first through the warm grass
Humming with Spring,
And now swim through the evening's
Soft sunlight gone cold.
I'm old in this green ocean;
Going a final time to the rose.
North wind, until I reach it
Keep your icy breath away
That changes pollen into dust.
Let me be drunk on this scent a final time,
Then blow if you must.
-Brian Patten
"Never confuse motion with action."
-Ben Franklin
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
- Marcus A. Antonius
"God is the fullness of heaven, love is the fullness of man."
-Victor Hugo
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
-John Cleese:
"Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T.S. Eliot
"For a long time I have had two callings-agricultural and political. In either category, if you don't watch out, you can get a lot of dirt on your hands but the dirt acquired through working with soil is more easily washed off.
George Aiken [June 1, 1970]
"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
-Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
-Frederick II, the Great
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
-Laurence J. Peter
"...rather ill and rather American .... But by no means to be sniffed at."
-Lytton Strachey,after meeting T. S. Eliot
From A Literary Calendar
"In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-H.L. Mencken
"...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
-Dr. Seuss (as quoted in his obit in Time)
"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
-Alan Patrick Herbert
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
-Douglas Adams
"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'"
-John F. Kennedy
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."
-- St. Augustine (354-430)
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased that line."
-Oscar Levant.
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
--Albert Einstein
"You can love completely without complete understanding."
- Norman Maclean
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
-Mark Twain
"If attacked by a lion thrust your arm down his throat. This takes some practice."
- Cyril Connolly
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
- Emily Dickinson
"No writing on the solitary, meditative dimension of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees."
- Thomas Merton From a Gethsemani page on Limited Editions of Thomas Merton's works. 6/19/00 That link dies, here's the Gethsemani Bookstore page.
I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason
-Edmund Spenser. 1553-1599. Borrowed from Shoi Udahsi's Poetry section in The Evil Impact
"You have delighted us long enough."
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813
The nicest way to say, "Shut up," I've ever read. Comment by Laura S. Moncur Quotes of the Week: 12\15\97
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, & fat."
-Alex Levine
Borrowed from Imlost's Quotes page.
"Passion makes one think in a circle."
-Oscar Wilde
"Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot."
-Dutch Proverb
"Tension is holding on to something that is not there."
-Cheng Man Ch'ing
"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."
-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics,325 B.C.
"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
-Blaise Pascal
"There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe."
- Teilhard de Chardin
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."
-Kahlil Gibran
"When a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far."
-Paul White
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
-Cicero
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
-Eric Hoffer
"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality."
-Clifton Fadiman
As an editor and judge for the Book of the Month Club for over 50 years, he helped shape the reading choices of countless Americans. He wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as numerous magazines, and compiled over two dozen anthologies on subjects ranging from mathematics to poetry to the pun. On a series of radio and television programs, most notably the radio quiz show Information, Please!, he become a model of wit and erudition.I don't like linking to his obituary, but it does sum him up fairly well.
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
-Samuel Johnson
"If you bow at all, bow low."
-Chinese Proverb
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
-Paul Valery
Paul Valery (1871-1945) Poet, Essayist, Aphorist Influential French poet who dedicated his life and work to worshiping the "Idol of Intellect."
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
- David Viscott
a once-divorced, now remarried M.D., psychiatrist, and talk show host based in Southern California.
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
Wendell Johnson
Louis W. Hill Research Professor, University of Iowa. B.A., M.A., Ph.D. degrees, University of Iowa (Ph.D., 1931 with combined major in Clinical Psychology and Speech Pathology and a minor in Physiology).
"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind."
- Bulgarian Proverb
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
- Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967) A poet, short-story writer, theater critic and screenwriter, Dorothy Parker is best remembered for her wit.
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."I really like this one - it used to be here twice!
- Thomas Merton
"We all live under the same sky . . . but we DO NOT all have the same horizon."
-Konrad Adenauer
From carlos' page
"Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."
- Mario Puzo, 'The Godfather'
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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