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| Quotations of the Day: April 2005 |
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April 30, 2005
[The educated differ from the uneducated] as much as the living from the dead.
—Aristotle
April 29, 2005
Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
—Jules Henri Poincaré
April 28, 2005
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
—Albert Camus
April 27, 2005
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
—Mary Wollstonecraft
April 26, 2005
When one is frightened of the truth … then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
April 25, 2005
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order…. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
—Edward R. Murrow
April 24, 2005
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work … a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
—Barbra Streisand
April 23, 2005
There can be but two great political parties in this country.
—Stephen Douglas
April 22, 2005
Comme un fou se croit Dieu, nous nous croyons mortels. (As a madman believes himself to be God, we believe ourselves to be mortal.)
—Vladimir Nabokov
April 21, 2005
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
—Max Weber
April 20, 2005
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
—Pope Benedict XVI
April 19, 2005
Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
—Octavio Paz
April 18, 2005
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man—public opinion.
—Clarence Darrow
April 17, 2005
A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one, and the real one.
—J.P. Morgan
April 16, 2005
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.
—J.M. Synge
April 15, 2005
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
—Jean Baptiste Colbert
April 14, 2005
History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.
—Arnold Toynbee
April 13, 2005
Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.
—Thomas Jefferson
April 12, 2005
A doubtful choice, of these three which to crave, / A kingdom, or a cottage, or a grave.
—Edward de Vere
April 11, 2005
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.
—Charles Evans Hughes
April 10, 2005
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
—Joseph Conrad
April 9, 2005
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
—Charles Baudelaire
April 8, 2005
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
—Winston Churchill
April 7, 2005
O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in everything.
—William Wordsworth
April 6, 2005
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 5, 2005
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.
—Thomas Hobbes
April 4, 2005
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
—Pope John Paul II
April 3, 2005
It’s in the arch of my back, / The sun of my smile, / The ride of my breasts, / The grace of my style. / I’m a woman / Phenomenally. / Phenomenal woman, / That’s me.
—Maya Angelou
April 2, 2005
Be not afraid!
—Pope John Paul II
April 1, 2005
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
—Milan Kundera
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