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| Quotations of the Day: February 2008 |
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February 29, 2008
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
—David Mamet
February 28, 2008
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
—Graham Greene
February 27, 2008
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have [to] bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
—Hugo Black
February 26, 2008
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
—Victor Hugo
February 25, 2008
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art…. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
—John Foster Dulles
February 24, 2008
When their stores are full, idiots are considered wise.
—Punjabi proverb
February 23, 2008
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
—W.E.B. Du Bois
February 22, 2008
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
—George Washington
February 21, 2008
To be free / Is often to be lonely.
—W.H. Auden
February 20, 2008
A great building … must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
—Louis Kahn
February 19, 2008
Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
—Flannery O’Connor
February 18, 2008
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
—Toni Morrison
February 17, 2008
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
—Giordano Bruno
February 16, 2008
A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams
February 15, 2008
If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
—Isaac Newton
February 14, 2008
The greatest love is a mother’s; / Then comes a dog’s, / Then comes a sweetheart’s.
—Polish Proverb
February 13, 2008
You seem to have no real purpose in life and won’t realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.
—Jennie Jerome Churchill
February 12, 2008
Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
—Abraham Lincoln
February 11, 2008
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
—Lydia Maria Child
February 10, 2008
Making the best of things is … a damn poor way of dealing with them…. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
—Rose Wilder Lane
February 9, 2008
For books are more than books, they are the life / The very heart and core of ages past, / The reason why men lived and worked and died, / The essence and quintessence of their lives.
—Amy Lowell
February 8, 2008
If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
—Wilson Mizner
February 7, 2008
Here’s the rule for bargains: “Do other men, for they would do you.” That’s the true business precept.
—Charles Dickens
February 6, 2008
We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
—Ronald Reagan
February 5, 2008
We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy—for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals—than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
—Adlai Stevenson
February 4, 2008
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles A. Lindbergh
February 3, 2008
They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay.
—Gertrude Stein
February 2, 2008
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
—James Joyce
February 1, 2008
What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?
—Langston Hughes
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