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Quotations of the Day: September 2008
September 30, 2008
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun. —Saint Jerome
September 29, 2008
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. —Franz Kafka
September 28, 2008
A mighty pain to love it is, / And ’t is a pain that pain to miss; / But of all pains, the greatest pain / It is to love, but love in vain. —Abraham Cowley
September 27, 2008
A debate before 70 million people is in fact a distorting glass, a fun-house mirror in which wrinkles look like canyons and hesitation like an attack of amnesia. —Peter Goldman
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. —William Faulkner
September 24, 2008
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. —Plato
September 23, 2008
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression of that will by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained. —Victoria Woodhull
September 22, 2008
And so while dreams are the individual man’s play with reality, the sculptor’s art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. —Friedrich Nietzsche
September 21, 2008
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, / Bearing the wanton burden of the prime / Like widowed wombs after their lords’ decease. —William Shakespeare
September 20, 2008
Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, a man of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 19, 2008
’Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. —George Washington
September 18, 2008
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. —Samuel Johnson
September 17, 2008
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. —Herbert Hoover
September 16, 2008
Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. —Jean Arp
September 15, 2008
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity. —William Howard Taft
September 14, 2008
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. —G.K. Chesterton
September 13, 2008
Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness. —John F. Kennedy
September 12, 2008
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. —H.L. Mencken
September 11, 2008
From these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. —Abraham Lincoln
September 10, 2008
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. —John F. Kennedy
September 9, 2008
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. —Leo Tolstoy
September 8, 2008
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room! —Stanley Kubrick
September 7, 2008
I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. —Grandma Moses
September 6, 2008
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters do not commonly desire more of it than they already possess. —René Descartes
September 5, 2008
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. —Mother Teresa
September 4, 2008
School days, school days; dear old golden rule days. / Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic; taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick. —Will D. Cobb
