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| Quotations of the Day: January 2008 |
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January 31, 2008
You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
—James Baldwin
January 30, 2008
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 29, 2008
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
—Thomas Paine
January 28, 2008
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
—Christa McAuliffe
January 27, 2008
You evidently do not suffer from “quotation-hunger” as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.
—Lewis Carroll
January 26, 2008
The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent, / So those who enter death must go as little children sent. / Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead; / And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.
—Mary Mapes Dodge
January 25, 2008
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
—Virginia Woolf
January 24, 2008
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
—Edith Wharton
January 23, 2008
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
January 22, 2008
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
—Francis Bacon
January 21, 2008
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon…. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 20, 2008
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.
—Jack Brooks
January 19, 2008
What can be more soothing, at once to a man’s Pride, and to his Conscience, than the conviction that, in taking vengeance on his enemies for injustice done him, he has simply to do them justice in return?
—Edgar Allan Poe
January 18, 2008
Year chases year, decay pursues decay, / Still drops some joy from with’ring life away; / New forms arise, and diff’rent views engage.
—Samuel Johnson
January 17, 2008
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin
January 16, 2008
Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; / And, though these shelt’ring walls are thin, / May they be strong to keep hate out / And hold love in.
—Louis Untermeyer
January 15, 2008
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
—Edward Teller
January 14, 2008
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
—Albert Schweitzer
January 13, 2008
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, / Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, / Gone from the earth to a better land I know, / I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.”
—Stephen Foster
January 12, 2008
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
—Edmund Burke
January 11, 2008
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
—Alexander Hamilton
January 10, 2008
And why do you cry, my dear, why do you cry? / It is all in the whirling circles of time. / If millions are born millions must die.
—Robinson Jeffers
January 9, 2008
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
—Carrie Chapman Catt
January 8, 2008
When I first heard Elvis’s voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was gonna be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.
—Bob Dylan
January 7, 2008
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink / and cannot be arrested and pay no tax / and, in general, bats have it made.
—John Berryman
January 6, 2008
Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God’s redemptive action.
—Reuel Howe
January 5, 2008
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.
—Paul Fussell
January 4, 2008
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
—Helen Keller
January 3, 2008
You have another little drink, and I’ll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
—Irving Ravetch
January 2, 2008
At first thy little being came: / If nothing once, you nothing lose, / For when you die you are the same; / The space between, is but an hour, / The frail duration of a flower.
—Philip Freneau
January 1, 2008
New eyes each year / Find old books here, / And new books, too, / Old eyes renew.
—Philip Larkin
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