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| Quotations of the Day: March 2006 |
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March 31, 2006
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
—Dorothy Day
March 30, 2006
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut—a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
—Anzia Yezierska
March 29, 2006
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
—John Keats
March 28, 2006
Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.
—W.H. Auden
March 27, 2006
Every other artist begins [with] a blank canvas, a piece of paper … the photographer begins with the finished product.
—Edward Steichen
March 26, 2006
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink / For fellows whom it hurts to think.
—A.E. Housman
March 25, 2006
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business.
—Flannery O’Connor
March 24, 2006
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
—William Morris
March 23, 2006
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.
—Pierre Simon Laplace
March 22, 2006
Amor fati: that shall henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war against the ugly. I do not want to accuse—I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Let looking away be my only denial! And all in all and on the whole: I want someday to be purely and simply a Yes-sayer!
—Friedrich Nietzsche
March 21, 2006
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. / For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; / The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
—The Song of Solomon
March 20, 2006
The United States, delighting in her resources, feeling that she no longer had within herself sufficient scope for her energies, wishing to help those who were in misery or bondage the world over, yielded in her turn to that taste for intervention in which the instinct for domination cloaked itself.
—Charles de Gaulle
March 19, 2006
We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
—Harriet Tubman
March 18, 2006
My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds.
—Neville Chamberlain
March 17, 2006
O Paddy dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round? / The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground! / No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen, / For there’s a cruel law agin the wearin’ o’ the Green!
—Anonymous
March 16, 2006
I love you. I never told my parents that I loved them. ‘Course, they never told me that they loved me, either, which was fine with me. But I love you.
—Paul D. Zimmerman
March 15, 2006
Remember March, the Ides of March remember. / Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake? / What villain touched his body, that did stab / And not for justice?
—William Shakespeare
March 14, 2006
In so far as the statements of geometry speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality.
—Albert Einstein
March 13, 2006
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
—Susan B. Anthony
March 12, 2006
To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.
—George Berkeley
March 11, 2006
We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low. / Will you never let us go?
—Rudyard Kipling
March 10, 2006
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.
—Friedrich von Schlegel
March 9, 2006
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
—Vita Sackville-West
March 8, 2006
Doctor, I want you to make it known to your government that it can trust us implicitly, for we do not want any of your territory. We only want your trade.
—William Howard Taft
March 7, 2006
No painting is more replete than Mondrian’s.
—Samuel Beckett
March 6, 2006
Let those love now who never loved before; / Let those who always loved, now love the more.
—Thomas Parnell
March 5, 2006
Well, there’s no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
—Lady Augusta Gregory
March 4, 2006
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
—James Reston
March 3, 2006
Always the same old story— / Father Time and Mother Earth, / A marriage on the rocks.
—James Merrill
March 2, 2006
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
—Winston Churchill
March 1, 2006
Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones / And fenced their gardens with the Redman’s bones.
—Robert Lowell
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