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| Quotations of the Day: August 2007 |
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August 31, 2007
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
—William Saroyan
August 30, 2007
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
August 29, 2007
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
—John Locke
August 28, 2007
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
—J.W. von Goethe
August 27, 2007
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.
—Thomas Jefferson
August 26, 2007
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
—T.S. Eliot
August 25, 2007
What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
—Ivan Turgenev
August 24, 2007
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
—Jorge Luis Borges
August 23, 2007
Degenerate sons and daughters, / Life is too strong for you— / It takes life to love Life.
—Edgar Lee Masters
August 22, 2007
People Who Do things exceed my endurance; / God, for a man that solicits insurance!
—Dorothy Parker
August 21, 2007
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, alack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
—Aubrey Beardsley
August 20, 2007
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
—Eliel Saarinen
August 19, 2007
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
August 18, 2007
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
—Ronald Reagan
August 17, 2007
Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
—David Crockett
August 16, 2007
What a day-to-day affair life is.
—Jules Laforgue
August 15, 2007
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
—Edna Ferber
August 14, 2007
Ah tell me not that memory / Sheds gladness o’er the past; / What is recalled by faded flowers / Save that they did not last?
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
August 13, 2007
Given a choice between hearing my daughter say “I’m pregnant” or “I used a condom,” most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.
—Joycelyn Elders
August 12, 2007
I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
—Mary Roberts Rinehart
August 11, 2007
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
—Louise Bogan
August 10, 2007
Trust, but look for the exits.
—Mason Cooley
August 9, 2007
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought / Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. / The wise for cure on exercise depend; / God never made his work for man to mend.
—John Dryden
August 8, 2007
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
August 7, 2007
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
—Mario Puzo
August 6, 2007
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
—Andy Warhol
August 5, 2007
I, the restless one; the circler of circles; / Herdsman and roper of stars, who could not capture / The secret of self.
—Conrad Aiken
August 4, 2007
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
—Elie Wiesel
August 3, 2007
Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting, in some countries.
—Mike Myers
August 2, 2007
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,… / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
—William Shakespeare
August 1, 2007
An open foe may prove a curse, / But a pretended friend is worse.
—John Gay
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