QOTD October 4 2005
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005Gore Vidal: “Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.”
Gore Vidal: “Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.”
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: “It is a mystery to me how a person can feel honored by the humiliation of his fellow human beings.”
Truman Capote: “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s
why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two
intelligent talkers seldom meet. “
Euripides: “Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.”
Alexander Pope: “Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine.”
Bo Bennett: “Avoiding the phrase
Barbara Kingsolver: “What keeps you going isn’t some fine
destination but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how
to drive.”
Frank Lloyd Wright: “Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Following this weekends photos 🙂
John Muir: “Keep close to Nature’s heart … and break clear away, once
in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your
spirit clean.”
Laurence J. Peter: “An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.”
Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin): “No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.”
I don’t know exactly where this quote comes from (it sounds like a Chinese saying).
“If you are facing the right direction, all you have to do is keep on walking”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Bonnie Prudden: “You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.”
Bruce Jenner: “I learned that the only way you are going to get
anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a
writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If
you do, you’ll win – if you don’t you won’t.”
Dave Barry: “Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as
hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water,
a vital ingredient in beer.”
(heyheyho…it’s weekend guys, Njoy!)
Sydney J. Harris: “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
William Newton Clarke: “Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821 – 1881): “The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.”
Arthur Rubinstein: “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”