QOTD January 13 2006
Friday, January 13th, 2006Sophocles: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
Sophocles: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
Socrates: "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Victoria Holt: “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
Malcolm X: “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Jim Rohn: “The more you know the less you need to say.”
Edgar Allan Poe: “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Alexander Pope: “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
John Cage: “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
Chinese Proverb: “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
Bob Dylan: “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
Neil Armstrong: “I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend
to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.”
Dorothy Nevill: “The real art of conversation is not only to say the
right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at
the tempting moment.”
Theodore Seuss Geisel: “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at
life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh
at all of life’s realities.”
Mark Twain: “Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your
life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal
your honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is
created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons
who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on
their way to the poorhouse.”
Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx: ” I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”
Yiddish proverb: “If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.”
Edward Estlin Cummings: “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
Adlai Stevenson: “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Michelangelo: “The marble not yet carved can hold the f
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero: “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”